Slavery in Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia

This book is about historical and contemporary practices of slavery in Gamo highlands of southern Ethiopia.Gamo is an area in Ethiopia where slavery is not history but part of people's life until today despite the official eradication by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1942. This book describes local explanations for exclusion of "slaves", areas of their exclusion from the mainstream society, different integration mechanisms and how their situation has changed during successive political regimes of the country.

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Born and brought up in southern Ethiopia, Bosha completed his undergraduate degree in History from Bahir Dar University in 2003 and M.A in social anthropology from Addis Ababa University in June 2013. His research interest focused on historical and contemporary views of slavery in Africa and Ethiopia.