The Bore Woreda of East Guji Zone: a Survey of its History, 1928 - 2022
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT Bore is one of the districts of the Guji zone in the Oromia region whose history has not been studied. Until recently, historians have not made historical research on the history of Bore woreda. None of the works clearly indicate the meaning of the word "Bore". Though the woreda has counted long ages and has contributed much to the zone, the region and the country as a whole starting from its time of establishment, the history of Bore woreda was not clearly described. Most of the peoples of the woreda have no written evidence that clearly show the historical background of the woreda and the major developments that had been recorded during the Imperial and Military regimes. Bore is one of the greenest woredas in the whole Gujii Zone. The waterfall on “Buqisa” river is a most see destination for tourists planning to visit Bore. But there is no well-constructed all-weather road that leading to this water fall for tourist destination. Most of the people in the Woreda haven't clear information about the introduction of Christianity and Islam as well as their contributions to the woreda. The town that has served as the woredas administrative center for about 72 years still has not been grew well. The town is a commercial center of the zone, as many woredas of the zone are located in the surrounding and do business with this town every day; but the town with such good opportunity and circulating to much finance daily from trade has not developed much. The town is still distinguished by its old age and name. The numerous achievements, registered in the past three decades of years under the current government which are initiatives of further developments felt me to put an interest. The combination of above factors was forced and encouraged me to conduct a research on the history of Bore woreda and to show the degree of problems to concerned bodies. The objective of this study is to reconstruct the political, socio-economic, cultural and religious history of Bore woreda from its foundation to the present. The research methodology applied in this study is the qualitative research method. This method is chosen for the reasons: it used to describe a phenomenon without conducting an experiment; it is chosen for the methods apparentness and directness; and it had undoubtedly been the most popular and the most widely used research method in history. The necessary data have been collected from published and unpublished documents which are available in Dilla and Addis Ababa university libraries, Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES), and National Archival and Library Agency (NALA). The data have also been collected from 36 key informants who were selected from different kebeles of Bore woreda. In writing this thesis efforts have been made in order to support the oral information with written materials. Moreover, to avoid problems in the use of oral sources significant measures have been taken in using of collected data, evaluating and checking them with the existing literature was the necessary step that have been carried out. The collected data from published and unpublished documents and from informants of the woreda through systematic methods have been analyzed meaningfully and interpreted into their chronological order. This research paper has a great importance to the students of history and the researcher who want to make future study in the similar area. It used to inform all readers about the history of Bore woreda. And it used to serve the NGOs and the tourists as reference.
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:17963
Author: Dube Chuluke
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7080625835
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