MEALS OF THE DAY IN BURJI LANGUAGE
By Tego Wolasa These are the three meals in Burjate. Break fast – Buud’o Lunch – baal/orrateek baal Dinner –Gaalo/ Yeding ite Drop your feedback in the comment section. Subsribe to the website for future automatic update.
THE BIRTH OF BURJI SOYAMA
By Tego Wolasa When Burji was upgraded from mitikl woreda (sub-district) to status of a woreda (full District) in 1965, the District’s administrative center, which was at Ilale-Sego was moved to Bader. Bader was later renamed Soyama. One account says that Soyama was named after a range of mountains found in the northeast of the […]
KNOWING YOUR LANGUAGE IS EMPOWERMENT
“If you know all the languages of the world and you don’t know your mother tongue, that is mental, it is enslavement, self-enslavement. But if you know your mother tongue and add all the other languages of the world, that is empowerment.’’ [Ngugiw Thion’go]
THE FIRST PUBLICATION ABOUT THE BURJI BY A BURJI
By Tego Wolasa The first written work about the Burji by a Burji is perhaps the Late Ambassador Mude Dae Mude’s work titled “The Amaro Burji of Southern Ethiopia.” He published the work in Ngano; Nairobi Historical Studies, Vol.1, Nairobi: University of Nairobi, 1969. He in 1979 published a novel titled ‘The Hills are falling,’ […]
Do The Burji Belong to The Cushitic Family?
Some people argue that the Burji are Bantus because they are farmers and not pastoralists like the other Cushites that we know They belong to the Highland East Cushitic-speaking people. Cushites comprise of around 47 tribes divided into five categories based on their linguistic characteristics and geographical location. The categories are; Highland East, Lowland East, […]
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THE BURJI POPULATION COULD HAVE BEEN 1.2MILLION TODAY
By Tego Wolasa What if the Burji population was supposed to be 1.2million today? Looks farfetched right? Historical events which happened during the reins of Menelik II and Haile Selassie between 1894 and 1941 explain the likelihood. The death of Emperor Yohannes of Ethiopia in the Battle of Gallabat in March 1889 led to coronation […]