The sidama Students in Universities: Any positive Role played in contemporary Political Realities?
Kinkino Kiya By : Kinkino Kia, Hawassa University ( Oct, 2012) As many scholars contend, a very little is known about sidama people due to the consistent lack of such a status as a nations in the Ethiopian historiography. As Seyoum rightly argues, the general lack of useful sources on sidama studies has been a bone of contention among the contemporary sidama intellectuals for quite some time. The paucity of information has resulted in confusion and ambiguity in identifying the people, its culture, the history and the current development underlying the change and continuity in Sidama land. Sidama people conceive the modern government administrative structure from their historical experience of conquest and subsequent alienation in the past. Therefore, a brief review of the place of Sidama within the modern Ethiopian state is appropriate. Ever since the conquest of Menlik II, in early 1890s, the sidamaland and its people have been subjected to relentless oppression and exploitation.