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Title: | Trade Relations between Western Ethiopia and the Nile Valley during the Nineteenth Century |
Author: | Kurimoto, Eisei |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Journal of Ethiopian Studies |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 53-68 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | mercantile history long-distance trade Economics and Trade History and Exploration colonialism History, Archaeology Foreign trade history trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41966055 |
Abstract: | Written sources produced by European travellers and explorers in the middle of the 19th century suggest the existence of a north-south long-distance trade involving the Oromo, the Anywaa and the Pari before the advent of alien forces, such as the Turco-Egyptians, the Ethiopian empire and the British, to the upper Nile region. Eastern Equatoria was in fact a meeting point of two trade routes: one extending from northern Sudan through western Ethiopia and the other extending from the East African coast through present-day Uganda. The main trade items were metal goods and beads. The trade goods were 'relayed' by various ethnic groups, without centralized and systematic control or regulation. Today the once free flow of people and commodities has come to be confined within the framework of the State and only the term 'gaala' and its variants in Eastern Equatoria languages, referring to foreigners in general and derived from 'galla', the name given by others to the Oromo, remains as a souvenir of the past. Notes, ref. |