A History of Modern Ethiopia (1855-1991): A Review
Abstract The author is a fantastic analyst though as others have noted about him; just to begin the review, the stronger sides of the writer was, he has done extensive research on the subject, consulting both the secondary literature and the contemporary publications and original sources of primary. So, the author tried to discuss and analysed his argument to make clear the misconceptions and vague judgments about the oldest history of Ethiopia in his studies. Moreover, with concert evidences...
Dynamic vs Nondynamic Assessments: Impacts on Intermediate EFL Learners’ Receptive Skills
Listening and reading skills, which are two of the essential skills in the world of language learning, have established themselves in various academic fields. Many researchers have looked at teaching and developing these two receptive abilities, but less focus has been paid to assessing and testing them. Traditional evaluation has been used to examine learners for a long time, but new teaching methods should introduce new ways to test and assess students. )is study attempted to investigate th...
Manufacturing Procedures and Techniques of Indigenous Pottery Technology: An Ethno-Archaeological Investigation on West Guji Zone of Bule Hora District, Southern Ethiopia. Journal, Yantu/CJE
This an ethno-archaeological study focused on the investigation of indigenous pottery technology in West Guji Zone of Bule Hora district, Southern Ethiopia. Thus, the aim of the paper was to conduct an inclusive investigation about the traditional pottery manufacturing technology, procedures and its ethnographical tradition of the local communities (selected kebeles) in the district. The research was conducted on five kebeles (two rural kebeles, Goroo Gudina and Harroo; and three of Bule hora...
Stimulating the Professional and Personal Self-Development of Future Teachers in the Context of Value-Semantic Orientation
The actualization of value-based approaches to vocational education is determined by the presence of several contradictions, among which it is necessary to name the following: the need for educational practice in more productive means; the implementation of a humanistic educational paradigm and the unpreparedness of teachers to use them; the need for teachers with formed attitudes towards value attitudes towards themselves, their professional activities, education, self-development, to the pe...
The Role of Microfinance in Funding Small & Medium Enterprises: Harekello Town of Goro Dolla District in Focus, Ethiopia
This study examines the role of the Microfinance on funding of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Gorodola Harakallo town. The study also exploring the role of microfinance institutions on small and medium enterprise as well as the extent to which the small business have benefited from the credits scheme of microfinance institution. The specific objectives of this study were as follows; to determine at what extent role of microfinance lead to increase the volume of gross sales of part...
Assessment of Government and NGOs Joint Efforts and Role in Drought Mitigation Program: The Case of East Guji Zone Drought Vulnerable Areas
The focus of this paper is to examine the responses of NGOs and governmental bodies joint efforts in drought mitigation programs of southern Ethiopia, East Guji Oromo drought vulnerable areas in the 20th century. The manuscript also explores the role of thus bodies and the perceptions of local communities towards those organization intervention extents and ways of assistance to occurred hardships. Likewise, the article also tries to look, assess and well exhibit a well-known and still active ...
The Guji-Oromo Women Places in the Society (Polio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Rights): In reference to the Gadaa System, South Ethiopia
This section starts with the historical review of Ethiopian women‘s roles and status analyzed from a feminist perspective. The aim is to find out whether there were feminist tendencies among the actions of women in the past and what forms those had. What has to be kept in mind is that women‘s right, question and other related issues, in the past and at present, were strongly influenced by the political and religious culture of society that continues unabated. Taking this into consideratio...
Where Indigenous Knowledge is Beyond Modernity: An Experience From the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Traditional Adult Education Practices, Ethiopia
This research paper is intended to assess Indigenous/Traditional Church Education Practices and their Implications on Modern Education. The research attempts to evaluate the unique features of indigenous/traditional Orthodox Church education in light of modern education, the teaching and learning methods in the traditional schools of the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC). Ethiopian Orthodox Church school’s curriculum and its ways of provision, assessment, code of conduct, methodology ...
Trends of Writing Environmental Historty in Ethiopian Historiography
The main objective of this manuscript is deals with the history of writing environmental history in Ethiopia Studies. It has shown that particularly after the 1960s, as a new discipline, scholastic works and publications are produced on environmental history in Ethiopia. Various authors repeatedly made their researches on the history of environmental thought, forest history, drought history, famine history, agricultural history and etc. Among others drought and famine history received a consi...
An Indigenous Survival Mechanism to Periodic Droughts: A Lesson From East Guji Oromo Pastoralist Communities, South Ethiopia
This manuscript tries to explore the continual droughts and its phenomena’s in the Southern Ethiopia East Guji Oromo pastoralist and semi-pastoralist communities that exhibit periodically via examining the possible root causes which fuel for periodical disasters and pestilences occurrence, and communities age old practice of indigenous acquired skills and wisdom's in the face of hardship as a means of coping and surviving mechanisms. Like, Raagaa [prediction the future] practice as drought ...
Indigenous Education System: Some Notes on the Guji Oromo Age Old Traditional Education Practices, Southern Ethiopia
The main theme of this manuscript is to highlight the Guji Oromo indigenous education system; which needs the detail revision on historical, cultural, political, philosophical, religion, and geographical foundation of the society. It also indicates that the Guji Oromo have developed indigenous education system through which they transferred indigenous knowledge to the next generation. The study also shows that the education process is guided by well-structured traditional curriculum, which de...
A Survey of Solid Waste Management Services in Woldya Town (Ethiopia): Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement.
In different cities and towns of Ethiopia, solid waste is a major environmental problem. Woldya town also face the challenges of solid waste management. Effective and efficient solid waste management in a town is a mandatory to ensure human and animal health and also to ensure clean and sound able environment in urban development. The aim of this study is to assess challenges and opportunities for improvement of solid waste management services in Woldya town. Interviews, questionnaires and ob...
How We Can Improve Students Interest in Asking and Answering Questions in the Classroom: The Case of Second Year Social Science Students of Bule Hora University in 2020.
This education research tries to look at student’s low interest in asking and answering questions in social science courses and teacher’s efforts, mechanisms and hard workings to improve students’ interest and participation in a class room and other project works. Likewise, the paper also assess and examine the causes of some students being silence in class room when they are addressed different individual and group class works in their session; and results that has been occur mainly af...
Contested Politcs in Ethiopia, Post of 2018; Challenges and Prospects of the Ruling Party
The theme of this paper is to highlighting the political, economic, democratic, historical dilemmas and realities that occurred in the Ethiopian political system in 2018 through popular rebellion; futuristic hinders and chances of the ruling party to sustain its popularity and prosperity of the country. Talk of Ethiopia conjures a whole range of metaphors and contradictory perceptions and misconceptions. With the ascendance to power of Dr. Abiy Ahmed, as Prime Minister of Ethiopia on Apri...