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{"title":"CONTENTIONS ABOUT COMMODIFIED ETHNIC IDENTITY; THE CASE OF CULTURAL TOURISM IN HMMAR AND MURSI COMMUNTIES OF SOUTH OMO RIFT VALLEY, ETHIOPIA","authors":"Saleh Seid","doi":"10.59122/63502op","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/63502op","url":null,"abstract":"Most ethnic groups worldwide tend to engage in commercializing and commodifying their indigenous cultures and heritage. Cultural tourism is one of the areas where ethnicity is often highly commodified. In this aspect of the worldwide movement, the notion of cultural authenticity falls under a growing danger while some argue commodification will help to preserve identity through commercializing it. The other debate pertaining to the commodification of cultural identity is whether it fosters emancipation or exploitation. A much-disputed question here is who is exploited by commodification, the tourist or the community. Drawing upon these contentions around commodified ethnic identity, this study explores the specific case of cultural tourism in the Ethiopian South Omo rift valley. The findings show that the outcomes of commodification in cultural tourism for local identities can be both constructive and destructive or emancipating and exploitative. Keywords: commodification, ethnic identity, cultural tourism, emancipation, authenticity","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129931927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN THE KINGDOM OF DAWRO, ETHIOPIA","authors":"Seid Ahmed","doi":"10.59122/83502tz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/83502tz","url":null,"abstract":"In many patriarchate societies of Africa, women were highly dominated in every aspect of life. Even in our contemporary world, there are few public figures that traversed the male domination. In spite of such dominance, women have had a better socio-political and economic status in some medieval kingdoms like Dawro, and the role and wisdom of prominent women in such kingdoms needs further investigation. The oral history of Dawro explicitly reveals that women had almost equal status with men. They had the right to choose their own counterpart as well as hold public office by competing with men except the office of king which was an absolute power vested on men. On the other hand, there was a unique office for women to act as the head of the king’s treasury. Similarly, in Dawro indigenous religion, every clan have their own male deities and Mariaminto is a ‘female’ deity for women. This kind of gender equity emanated from the unique Dawro socio-political system. It was introduced at the beginning of the 16th century by a famous King Adeto Erashu and it was further developed and reshaped by the active involvement and advice of the famous Dawro Queen Bale during the reign of her son, King Erashu Hallalla. In the Dawro indigenous political system, women had an equal chance to compete for political office, except the office of kingship. There was also a separate office, Tomosogenne (king’s treasury officer) for women who spun cotton, Shalwua, the local currency and currency of other neighboring kingdoms. Hence many spinners under the leadership of Tomosogenne spun more cotton in order to boost the economic powers of various Dawro kings. It is reported that there were many female public officials in the Dawro political system including Genne Bale, Genne Shoshote and many others who worked more for the glory of the kingdom, while few of them added fuel for the decline and fall of the state. According to Dawro elders, the most prominent one was Genne Angelate Gabe, a female Worrabba (regional ruler) in Tocha. Above all her other pursuits, she was credited with separating her region from Dawro and finally peacefully surrendering it to the invading force of King Menelik (18891913) in the second half of nineteenth century. Keywords: Indigenous administration, women, Dawro, Ethiopia","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126693270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Public’s Response to the Health Communication Strategies to Prevent the Expansion of Covid 19 in Ethiopia, Focusing on Some Selected Zones of SNNPR","authors":"Tesfaye Alemayeu Degefa","doi":"10.59122/43502cb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/43502cb","url":null,"abstract":"Health communication is crucial for the creation of public awareness about the danger of a pandemic and safety measures. The study is situated in innovation diffusion and neutralization theories because these theories explain how new ideas spread in a society and how individuals normalize moral discomforts and avoid guilty feelings caused by a behavior against the acceptable norm in a society, respectively. Document and text analysis as well as in-depth interview were employed to collect the data. Documents were analyzed and health communication officers were interviewed. Thematic and textual analysis were employed for analysis. The analysis revealed that integrated media and inclusive and participatory communication were the communication strategies employed to alert the public about COVID 19. The public’s awareness about Coronavirus increased as a result of the communication. The public’s perception and scarcity of logistics were primary challenges. Moreover, the public became negligent in the prevention measures that should be taken due to their lifestyle, culture, and social influence as well as low economic status. As a result, they made themselves vulnerable to the risk of COVID 19. Since the public put themselves in risky situations, ardent and persuasive messages should be designed. Subsequently, the communication should consider changing beyond cognitive skills to bring behavior change. Keywords: COVID19, Coronavirus, Gamo Zone, Health Communication, Negligence, Ethiopia","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129087753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis on Factors Affecting the Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises: The Case of Gulele Sub-City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia","authors":"Mohammed Seid Ebrahim","doi":"10.59122/13502xv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/13502xv","url":null,"abstract":"Micro and small enterprises are the integral parts of industrial development and considered as the cornerstones of a vibrant entrepreneurial economy and social transformation especially in developing countries. The government of Ethiopia has given sizable recognition and credit for the expansion of these enterprises. However, due to various socioeconomic and political factors including cumbersome bureaucratic procedures, they have been subjected to undergrowth, stagnation, and disappearance. This study, thus, aims to examine factors affecting the growth of micro and small enterprise in Addis Ababa city particularly in Gulele Sub-city, Woreda 03. The study used mixed research approach. The data for this study were collected using survey questionnaire from 120 enterprise leaders/owners/ who were selected via random stratified sampling method. Descriptive statistics, growth rate method, and multiple linear regression model were applied for quantitative data analysis. The analysis reveals that enterprises grew with the rate of 0.20, but growth rate had no similar trends among different sectors: service, trade, manufacturing, urban agriculture, and construction. Moreover, the regression analysis shows that out of eleven explanatory variables, age, gender, and work experience of leaders or owners jointly with age of enterprise, number of total employees, suitability of working place, marketing problem, and government’s policies had significant contribution on the growth of micro and small enterprises in the study site. In conclusion, the growth of the enterprises was affected by various socioeconomic, demographic, environmental, and policy related factors. Therefore, all stakeholders should work jointly to overcome the existing problems, create workable environment, and develop practicable strategies to increase the performance and harness the tremendous contributions of the sector for job opportunity and economic transformation. \u0000Keywords: Micro and Small Enterprise; determinant; Growth, Addis Ababa","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"549 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122993047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deixis in Kole Variety: Its Conceptualization and Distribution","authors":"Samuel Gondare Dashiro","doi":"10.59122/13505hj","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/13505hj","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the deixis distribution in Kole variety which is grouped under East Ometo language clusters. Since the issue of language cluster is an unsolved problem in Ometo language, we cannot conclude that it is an independent language or variety. The main objective of this study is to identify the conceptualization of deixis and its distribution in Kole. In this paper, five types of deixis were investigated. The deixis under investigation were subtypes. The methodology used to describe the language was elicitation and fieldwork interview based on the experience of the researcher in the language fieldwork. Keywords: deixis, spatial deixis, distal demonstrative, proximal demonstrative","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"76 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120901955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender Differential in Productivity and Income of Haricot Bean in Misrak Badawacho District of Southern Ethiopia","authors":"None Hanna Mamo and Lombebo Tagess","doi":"10.59122/19505lo","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/19505lo","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates gender differential in agricultural productivity, highlights its key determinants, and estimates the gap in income generated from the production of haricot bean. The study was conducted based on data generated from 122 male headed and 39 female headed households from Misrak Badawacho district of southern Ethiopia. Descriptive and inferential statistics as well as econometric models were employed to analyze the data. The models used were Cobb-Douglas production function, and output decomposition model. The estimates of CobbDouglas production function showed that fertilizer, improved seed, pesticide, labor, total land size, project participation, number of extension contact, tropical livestock unit, and distance from development agent center significantly affected productivity of haricot bean. The estimate of decomposition model found that farm income differences between male and female headed household was 311 birr. Based on the result of the study, it can be recommended that enhancing access to resource endowment and institutional support is critical in increasing the productivity and income of female headed households in the study area.
 Keywords: Differential, Gender, productivity, Misrak Badawacho, Haricot Bea","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135892689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender Disparities in Access to and Flow Rates of Secondary Schooling in Gamo and Gofa Zones, Ethiopia","authors":"Girma Mekuria, Petros Bekele Eshete","doi":"10.59122/134f5xf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/134f5xf","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000This study intended to examine the status of gender disparities in enrollments, retentions, and promotion rates in secondary schooling in Gamo and Gofa zones. We employed a large-scale archival database to examine gender disparities in secondary schooling processes. In this aspect, we collected numerical data about access, dropouts, repetitions, and promotions from the recorded database of the sample zones. The collected numerical data were organized in excel Microsoft 2010 and computed the gender gap in secondary schooling processes. The results revealed the overall status of gender disparities in secondary schooling processes. Accordingly, the gender disparity status was closing; nevertheless, the advantage still favors male students over female students in enrollment and promotion rates. However, male students were at risk compared to female students in dropouts and repetition rates in grades 9-12 classroom exams for four consecutive years, 2015-2018. Yet, in grade 10 national exam and grade 12 national entrance exam scores, male students were advantageous over female students except for the low scorers (<50%) in the grade 12 natural sciences stream, in which the advantage favored female students over male students. In sum, we conclude that gender disparity advantages are still for male students over female students except in completion rates where boys are at learning risk compared to girls in secondary schools in Gamo and Gofa zones. \u0000Key words: Gender; Gender Disparities; Access; Flow Rates; Secondary Schooling","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"37 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116544889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"በአማርኛ ቋንቋ አንብቦ የመረዳት ችሎታ እና የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት ተዛምዶ፡ በሁለተኛ ደረጃ ትምህርት ቤት ተማሪዎች ተተኳሪነት","authors":"Yidnekachew Geremew Alemu","doi":"10.59122/134f5ef","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/134f5ef","url":null,"abstract":"በአማርኛ ቋንቋ አንብቦ የመረዳት ችሎታና የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት መካከል ያለውን ተዛምዶ መፈተሽ የዚህ ጥናት ዋና ዓላማ ነው፡፡ የተዛምዶ ፍተሻውን ለማድረግ ጥናቱ ተዛምዷዊ የምርምር ንድፍን ተከትሎ ተከናውኗል፡፡ የጥናቱ ተሳታፊዎች በአዲስ አበባ አስተዳደርበሁለት የሁለተኛ ደረጃ ትምህርት ቤቶች የሚማሩ የአማርኛ ቋንቋ አፍፈት የሆኑ የ2013 የትምህርት ዘመን የአስራ አንደኛ ክፍልተማሪዎች ናቸው፡፡ የተሳታፊዎቹ አመራረጥ እኩል እድል ሰጭ ንሞና ዘዴ በመጠቀም ተከናውኗል፡፡ የአንብቦ መረዳት ችሎታ መለኪያፈተናና የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት መጠይቅ በመጠቀም ለጥናቱ የሚያስፈልጉ መረጃዎች ተሰብስበዋል፡፡ የተሰበሰቡት መረጃከተጠናቀሩ በኋላ ገላጭ ስታትስቲክሳዊ ዘዴዎችን በመጠቀም ለጥናቱ ጥያቄዎች መልስ ለማግኘት የሚያስችል የመረጃ ትንተናተካሂዷል፡፡ ከመረጃ ትንተናው የተገኘው ውጤት (56.65%) የአብዛኞቹ ተማሪዎች አንብቦ የመረዳት ችሎታ መካከለኛ እንደሆነአሳይቷል፡፡ የተማሪዎቹ የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት አማካይ ውጤት (3.9) ከመካከለኛ በላይ መሆኑንም ከጥናቱ መረዳት ተችሏል፡፡በተላውጦዎቹ መካከል ተዛምዶ መኖሩን ለመፈተሽ በተካሄደ የፒርሰን ተዛምዶ ትንተና መሰረት በአስራ አንደኛ ክፍል አማርኛ ቋንቋአፍፈት ተማሪዎች አንብቦ የመረዳት ችሎታ እና በማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት መካከል አዎንታዊ ተዛምዶ መኖሩን የጥናቱ ውጤት(r=.263) አሳይቷል፡፡ በጥናቱ ውጤት መነሻነት የተማሪዎችን የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት ማሳደግ የአንብቦ መረዳት ችሎታቸውንሊያዳብር ስለሚችል በመማር ማስተማር ሂደት ትኩረት ሊሰጠው እንደሚገባ አስተያየት ተሰጥቷል፡፡","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123467144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rural Households’ Multidimensional Poverty and Its Determinants in Konso Woreda, SNNP Region, Ethiopia","authors":"Kayranto Kasho","doi":"10.59122/1344a74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/1344a74","url":null,"abstract":"Eradicating poverty in all its forms is one of global society's sustainable development goals. This requires creative and rigorous efforts to measure and reduce multidimensional poverty in a way that ensures no one is left behind. Despite a couple of efforts made to measure multidimensional aspects of welfare at the national level, limited studies have been done in rural parts of the country, where most poverty researches focused in unidimensional poverty. Hence, this study quantified the extent and examined the determinants of rural household multidimensional poverty status using the Alkire-Foster method and the ordered logistic regression model, respectively. Crosssectional data set was collected from 397 randomly selected households using structured questionnaire. Living standards indicators contribute the most to multidimensional poverty, while empowerment contributes the least. The study revealed that multidimensional poverty headcount, intensity, and the index were found to be 80.35 percent, 55.97 percent, and 44.8 percent, respectively. Among the sampled households, 2.2 percent of households were non-poor, 17.8 percent were vulnerable, 52.6 percent were moderately poor, and 27.4 percent were severely poor. According to the ordered logit model, the probability of a household being in multidimensional poverty was determined negatively by sex(male), expenditure, family size, land size, and employment level, while age and distance to the nearest health center are positively influencing it. Hence, promoting family planning, diversifying income sources and viable labor-intensive rural employment opportunities, provision of improved energy sources, electricity, clean water, and a road network would reduce a multifaceted rural poverty. \u0000Keywords: Deprivation Score; Konso; Multidimensional Poverty Index; Ordered Logit Model             ","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128444783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Historiography of the Conquest of Kaffa in 1897","authors":"Seid Ahmed","doi":"10.59122/13462gv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/13462gv","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000Many of the study of history focus on the dynamics of the history. Historiography, the study of history, hardly attracts the view of the non-professional historians. It’s a key in the study of history to show the knowledge gap but also the various views of the writers on the event. Most of the Ethiopian history writers passively generalized the southward movement of Emperor Menilek in the last quarter of 19th century. Many writers expressed their view on their personal orientation rather than supporting on concrete evidence. Thus the objective of this paper is to analyze the imperial southward movement of Ethiopia under Menilek in general and the conquest of Kaffa in particular. \u0000  \u0000Key Words: Expansion, Southward Movement, Kaffa, Ethiopia","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125188547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}