A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF KUYU WOREDA (1941-1991)

Abstract This study deals with A Historical Survey of Kuyu Districts. It explores social, economic and administrative themes, of Kuyu Woreda during different regime and its impacts on the society of the Woreda. The Kuyu evolved during the period of the different regime relatively homogenous society and culture to a place of residence for a diverse and increasingly cosmopolitan population. The period of Italian occupation (1936-1941) was socially significant because it saw the first major influx of people into the Kuyu District from beyond the borders of the former Regime whose name it had inherited. The Post-Liberation period (1941-74) was characterized by the evolution of an even more complex social fabric than before. An even greater influx of people and greater interaction came about partly because the imperial order retained and enhanced Kuyu primacy in the region and partly because economic developments in the region attracted thousands of job-seekers to the distirct. Economically, the story of Kuyu during this period was one of both continuity and change. It is a story of continuity because Kuyu, which had from the very beginning been a center of trade, continued to be so during this period also, Administratively, Kuyu during this period developed from the center of rule by a local and different regime. The background for this was set by the ending of the autonomous political existence of the Salale Awaraja and its full absorption into the political economy of the Ethiopian state on the eve of the Italian occupation of 1936. The imperial system of administration that was put in place after Liberation simply built on that beginning. The social, economic and administrative history of Kuyu are closely intert wined. Socio- economic activities during derg thr villagazation and settlement it changed the socio- economic of the communities. The land proclamation in 1975 more and less it satisfied the society of Kuyu Woreda and the agricultural Marketing Corporation in Kuyu to improve shortage of povert and infrastructure. The farmer it get the land to plot during the Derg regime than the imperial period.