Danta people

The Dubamo are an ethnic group, the south of Hosa'ina in southwest Ethiopia lives in Danta Highlands and therefore also Danta is called. They said originally Kambaata, however, have largely switched to Hadiyya.

Before the 17th century, the area of Dubamo the Ethiopian Empire belonged. From this period remained elements of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity get that fed into a syncretic religion of Dubamo. The Dubamo had a small kingdom that led back to " King Solomon of Gonder ." They are divided into seven clans, as well as immigrants from Bosha ( Garo ) and Hadiyya who joined them in the 18th and 19th centuries.

From the beginning of the 19th century was dominated by Sooro, a subgroup of the Hadiyya, the Dubamo area. Therefore, the Dubamo gave up their original language, a dialect of Kambaata on and switched to the Hadiyya; a minority among them speaks Kambaata as a second or third language. In the 1880s, the area was conquered by Ethiopia. Many converted since the Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and from the 1970s to Protestantism, which is now the most widespread religion in the Dubamo.

The Dubamo live mainly from cultivation of Ensete and barley and were formerly known for horse breeding. Since the introduction of the new federal administrative divisions of Ethiopia - to which they are assigned to the Hadiya zone within the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region - has been at the Dubamo consciousness amplified by a separate cultural identity. There is therefore efforts under the Dubamo to get your own management zone or woreda and to be registered as a separate group rather than Hadiyya.

Swell

• Ulrich Braukamper: Dubamo. In: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia aethiopica. Volume 2: D - Ha. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05238-4.

• Ethnic group in Ethiopia
• Ethnicity in Africa