Somali Region in Ethiopia: Historical Developments during the Period 1884-1995

Somali Region in Ethiopia: Historical Developments during the Period 1884-1995

Abstract

The history of Somali Region is scattered in the vast history of Somalia and Ethiopia. But this article explicitly examines the historical developments of the region from the colonial period to the recent past
around 1995, and how the region gained the diverging ethnic and national identities, Somali and Ethiopian at the same time.

The paper also aims at presenting the historical developments of Somali Region in short, and traditional narrative perspective.