AS SIDAMA BECOMES THE 10TH ETHIOPIAN REGION, WHAT NEXT FOR THE BURJI AND 54 OTHERS IN SNNPR?
By Tego Wolasa On November 20, 2019, the Sidama ethnic group officially got its own semi-autonomous region. Having their own region means that they will have powers to raise tax and exercise control over schools, police, and health month other services. After years of demand to leave the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR), […]
BURJI AND THEIR PEACEFUL WAY OF LIFE
BURJI AND THEIR PEACEFUL WAY OF LIFE By Tego Wolasa The Burji are ardent farmers and successful entrepreneurs. Firmly supported by history, they are an extremely peaceful and industrious community. Their already peaceful nature is enhanced by the two ways of life; farming and trade. Being farmers force the Burji to settle in one place […]
THE THREE CONSISTENT VALUES OF THE BURJI
By Degu Kono Kora Do you know the values with which the Burji people have been known for years? Well, Degu Kono Kora brings them to the fore. Hard work and dedication in whatever they do. They do not covet the neighbors’ properties. Living in peace and harmony with their neighbors In addition to the […]
KENYA’S DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ORDERS ARREST OF POLICE OFFICER WHO KILLED 13-YEAR-OLD YASSIN MOYO MOLTE
KENYA’S DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ORDERS ARREST OF POLICE OFFICER WHO KILLED 13-YEAR-OLD YASSIN MOYO MOLTE Mr Duncan Ndiema Ndiwah, the officer who allegedly shot and killed the KCPE candidate on 30th March 2020, will be arrested and prosecuted. The officer was enforcing a 7 pm to 5 am curfew. The curfew brought into force […]
TEFF FARMING IN BURJI
By Tego Wolasa The historical hate-love relationship between Burji and Teff Also known as Williams love grass or annual bunch grass, Teff is believed to have been domesticated by the Abyssinians between 3000 and 6000 years ago. Teff flour is mainly used for preparing fermented flatbread indigenously known as Injera. But can also be used […]
REAL LEADERS ARE FORGED IN CRISIS
By Tego Wolasa Coronavirus has changed how we work, live, worship, and even relate. The global economy has been depressed, but even more depressed are the poor and the needy. The economic waves are pounding them while the rich and the powerful have taken shelter behind their gated high financial walls. Kiamaiko in Nairobi is […]
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,’ […]