The Shawan Conquest of Sadan Sooddoo Oromo and its Impact from 1870’s-1913

Abstract

The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a period of dramatic political and historical importance for the peoples of the Horn as elsewhere in Africa because of the international imperialism and Shoan feudal colonialism. This paper deals with the expansion of Shawan rule towards Sadan Sooddoo Oromo and the impact of conquest. The Shoan kingdom under Menelik was armed and directly or indirectly supported by European colonial powers for their own interests, and efforts of colonial partition, at the expense of Oromo people. The aim of this paper was to discuss the conquest of Shawan rule and the impact of their rule on Sadan Sooddoo Oromo. For this study, the both primary and secondary sources were consulted and qualitative research methodology with purposive sampling technique was used to meet the objective of the paper. The collected primary data was crosschecked with secondary sources to increase its validity and reliability. The data, which were collected through different mechanism were analyzed qualitatively. This study also casts some light on Shawan conquest of Sadan Sooddoo and its impact in terms of Socio- economic, administration, and religion and land tenure. The paper also came up with the finding that Shawan conquest of the Sadan Sooddoo Oromo meets stiff resistance even though they were defeated in the end.