For Sodo to be Gurage again, it should look back to Gurage to reintegrate itself. It will regain true flavor of the Gurage identity. Now, its displaying parts of Gurage, Oromo and Amara elements of identities.
What started as Kistane priests visiting the courts of King Sahle Sellasie I, through generations it ended up with merchant visits and exports of workers to the fledgling small Amara kingdom surrounded by the land grabbing Tulema Gallas.