Ciinna - the Borana Oromo narration of the 1890s Great Rinderpest epizootic in North Eastern Africa

Journal of Eastern African Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 479-508

  Tiki, Waktole ^a   Oba, Gufu ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Demographic collapse; Epidemics; Oral history; Rinderpest; Southern Ethiopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249099312     PISSN: 17531055     EISSN: 17531063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17531050903273750     Document Type: Article

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