XVIIIᵉ siècle – XIXᵉ siècle
Regions south and south-west of the Blue Nile, Ethiopia
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The Oromo states were nineteenth-century monarchies that emerged as military leaders challenged the older rotating age-group gada system. Enarya, Goma, Guma, Jimma-Kakka, and Gera developed distinct political structures, while rulers such as Abba Bagibo and Abba Jifar Sana used Islam, dynastic alliances, firearms, and administrative reforms to consolidate power.
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The Oromo regions south of the Blue Nile were undergoing political transformation early in the nineteenth century. The egalitarian gada system, based on rotating age-groups, faced a challenge from wealthy military leaders known as abba dula, or “fathers of war.” Some of these leaders claimed lifelong authority and founded dynasties, producing monarchies where authority had previously rotated.
Three western Oromo monarchies emerged in the first decades of the century: Enarya, also called Limmu, together with Goma and Guma. Enarya became the most powerful. Its ruler Bofu strengthened his position by accepting Muslim merchant advice and embracing Islam, while his successor Ibsa, or Abba Bagibo, forged dynastic alliances and obtained matchlock guns from Gojam.
Further south, Jimma-Kakka and Gera arose a few years after Enarya. Jimma-Kakka endured longest: Abba Magal founded the monarchy, Abba Jifar Sana adopted Islam in 1830 and proclaimed himself moti, and later rulers expanded the state and built mosques. Abba Gommol, who ruled from 1862 to 1878, further extended the realm, although the excerpt also records the instability produced by rival rulers and shifting alliances.
XVIIIᵉ siècle – XIXᵉ siècle
Regions south and south-west of the Blue Nile, Ethiopia
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The Oromo states were nineteenth-century monarchies that emerged as military leaders challenged the older rotating age-group gada system. Enarya, Goma, Guma, Jimma-Kakka, and Gera developed distinct political structures, while rulers such as Abba Bagibo and Abba Jifar Sana used Islam, dynastic alliances, firearms, and administrative reforms to consolidate power.
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Le récit
The Oromo regions south of the Blue Nile were undergoing political transformation early in the nineteenth century. The egalitarian gada system, based on rotating age-groups, faced a challenge from wealthy military leaders known as abba dula, or “fathers of war.” Some of these leaders claimed lifelong authority and founded dynasties, producing monarchies where authority had previously rotated.
Three western Oromo monarchies emerged in the first decades of the century: Enarya, also called Limmu, together with Goma and Guma. Enarya became the most powerful. Its ruler Bofu strengthened his position by accepting Muslim merchant advice and embracing Islam, while his successor Ibsa, or Abba Bagibo, forged dynastic alliances and obtained matchlock guns from Gojam.
Further south, Jimma-Kakka and Gera arose a few years after Enarya. Jimma-Kakka endured longest: Abba Magal founded the monarchy, Abba Jifar Sana adopted Islam in 1830 and proclaimed himself moti, and later rulers expanded the state and built mosques. Abba Gommol, who ruled from 1862 to 1878, further extended the realm, although the excerpt also records the instability produced by rival rulers and shifting alliances.
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