Stuff EPDRF Don't Want You to know about Sidama
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"Today,
the Sidama area has only a small number of schools, and inadequate
health services, though primary education has increased recently. The
people have repeatedly complained that Sidama does not have regional
autonomy in the country and asked for the government to give the
Sidama people their own region."
They
number 12 million (4.01% of the population) of whom 149,480 are urban
inhabitants, the third most populous ethnic group in Ethiopia. Their
language is called Sidaamu-afoo,
which according to the 1994 national census was the mother language
of 99.5% of this ethnic group. According to one authority, the
majority of the Sidama practice their traditional beliefs, and only
in the 1960s that European missionaries came to their region did any
leave that faith. However, according to the 1994 national census,
only 14.9% practice traditional beliefs while the majority (66.8%)
are Protestant,
7.7% Muslim,
4.6% Catholic,
and 2.3% practice Ethiopian
Orthodox Christianity.
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