Shashamane
Shashemene (also Shashamane or Shashemenne ) is a city in the southern part of the Ethiopian province of Shewa and in today's Oromia Region with about 102 190 inhabitants. It lies about 250 kilometers south of the capital Addis Ababa. Many residents Shashemenes are members of the Rastafari movement, which originally came from Jamaica and were to Ethiopia, which is considered the " promised land " in the doctrine of salvation, the Rastafarians, emigrated.
History
The name goes back to a woman named Shashe, which operated a kind board. This phenomena is called in the local language Oromo.
Shashemene was founded in the 19th century as a garrison town, but only received international attention when in 1948 the then Ethiopian Neguse Negest Haile Selassie western Africans gave 500 acres of land. Between 1950 and 1974 they moved about 22 families from Jamaica to Shashemene. Mostly they were followers of the Rastafarian faith.
In the course of the work under the Derg regime in 1975 in all of Ethiopia land reform the donation was reversed. After violent protests by settlers around 50 hectares have been returned.
Today there are about 80 families from the United States, Jamaica and Europe live, the followers of the Rastafari movement are.
Shashemene in 2005 was the focus of worldwide media attention, as Rita Marley, the the world's most famous reggae musician and Rastafarian Bob Marley 's widow was quoted, that she wanted to exhume her husband and re- buried in Shashemene. Their statements eventually turned out to be misinterpretations of the media.