Menelik killed hundreds of thousands of Gumuz (neolithic tribe) in his campaign to south Ethiopia/Oromia
Posted: 06 Jul 2021, 22:24
The Gumuz were killed and murdered by Menelik, self-appointed king of Amara. Hundreds of thousands of Gumuz were killed . Their land was taken away. Benisnshangul Gumuz people still suffer discrimination in Ethiopia by Amara and unfortunately also by Oromo people.
They are seen as slaves by Ethiopia and political participation nearly absent or minimal. Thanks to TPLF-EPRDF, Benishangul-Gumuz became a regional state with it's own parliament and leader from Gumuz people. Abiy Ahmed and his Amara tribalists have now replaced the leaders with Amara people or like minded Oromo.
The picture below shows a boy one of the tribes of Gumuz
The Gumuz (also spelled Gumaz and Gumz) are an ethnic group speaking a Nilo-Saharan language inhabiting the Benishangul-Gumuz Region and the Qwara woreda in western Ethiopia, as well as the Fazogli region in Sudan. They speak the Gumuz language, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan family.
The Gumuz have traditionally been grouped with other Nilotic peoples living along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border under the collective name Shanqella (Pankhurst 1977). As "Shanquella", they are already mentioned by Scottish explorer James Bruce in his Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, published in 1790. He notes that they hunted with bows and arrows, a custom that survives today.
Most Gumuz members live in a bush-savanna lowland environment. According to their traditions, in earlier times they inhabited the western parts of the province of Gojjam, but were progressively banished to the inhospitable area of the Blue Nile and its tributaries by their more powerful Afroasiatic-speaking neighbors, the Amhara and Agaw, who also enslaved them (Wolde-Selassie Abbute 2004). Slavery did not disappear in Ethiopia until the 1940s. Descendants of Gumuz people taken as slaves to the area just south of Welkite were found to still be speaking the language in 1984 (Unseth 1985).
They are seen as slaves by Ethiopia and political participation nearly absent or minimal. Thanks to TPLF-EPRDF, Benishangul-Gumuz became a regional state with it's own parliament and leader from Gumuz people. Abiy Ahmed and his Amara tribalists have now replaced the leaders with Amara people or like minded Oromo.
The picture below shows a boy one of the tribes of Gumuz
The Gumuz (also spelled Gumaz and Gumz) are an ethnic group speaking a Nilo-Saharan language inhabiting the Benishangul-Gumuz Region and the Qwara woreda in western Ethiopia, as well as the Fazogli region in Sudan. They speak the Gumuz language, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan family.
The Gumuz have traditionally been grouped with other Nilotic peoples living along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border under the collective name Shanqella (Pankhurst 1977). As "Shanquella", they are already mentioned by Scottish explorer James Bruce in his Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, published in 1790. He notes that they hunted with bows and arrows, a custom that survives today.
Most Gumuz members live in a bush-savanna lowland environment. According to their traditions, in earlier times they inhabited the western parts of the province of Gojjam, but were progressively banished to the inhospitable area of the Blue Nile and its tributaries by their more powerful Afroasiatic-speaking neighbors, the Amhara and Agaw, who also enslaved them (Wolde-Selassie Abbute 2004). Slavery did not disappear in Ethiopia until the 1940s. Descendants of Gumuz people taken as slaves to the area just south of Welkite were found to still be speaking the language in 1984 (Unseth 1985).