A Historical Survey of the Dalocha woreda of southern Ethiopia.

This study is a historical survey of the Dalocha woreda of southern Ethiopia of Siltie zone. The major purpose of the thesis is to reconstruct the political, economic and social history of the Dalocha district. In general, the history of district in the Ethiopian historiography is still at its infancy. This thesis seeks to fill the gap in the historiography of the local history of Siltie. The thesis has six chapters. The first chapter provides highlights on the geography and the people of the district. The second chapter focuses on the regional administration in modern Ethiopia. Third chapter focuses on the history of the Dalocha district under Haile Silassie regime, where as chapter fourth and fifith deals with the history of district during and after the period of Derg regime respectively. Chapter six deals the social services in Dalocha woreda. Historical data used in the thesis consists of three kinds of source. The first category is written secondary literature. However most of these literature deals with works that deal with the general history of Siltie and do not explore developments in the district specifically. The second categories of sources used in the work are primary written sources. These include manuscripts and archival sources. The third category oral information from knowledgeable personalities who had direct or indirect relation with the history of the district of Dalocha as leaders, participants, observers and administrators. I gathered oral information by interview individually and group. I faced a several problems while conducting the research for thesis. First, the archival document of Dalocha had been not well organized. Most of these documents were damaged and burnt down as waste disposal. Even the archival document which I used the thesis were they do not have folder number and some archives I collect from individual who served as local governor and administrator of kebele of the former government and so on. Finally I would like to state that, I make no claim to have carried out a comprehensive research. I hope that my modest contribution will be of great interest and importance to others who want to conduct further research on the history of the district.