Chebo or Chabo is an ethnic group of the south West shewa zone and

West Shewa Zone West Shewa Zone ( om, Shawaa Lixaa/Dhihaa) is a zone in Oromia Region of Ethiopia. This zone takes its name from the kingdom or former province of Shewa. West Shewa is bordered on the south by the Southwest Shewa Zone and the Southern Nations, Na ...

of the

Oromia Region Oromia (Amharic: ) ( om, Oromiyaa) is a regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. The capital of Oromia is Addis Ababa. It is bordered by the Somali Region to the east; the Amhara Region, the Afar Region and the Benis ...

of south-west Ethiopia. The Chebo speak the Oromo language but originate from a Gurage ethnic groups. Their religion is Ethiopia Orthodox Christianity, the livelihood of the Chebo-Inchini area of is described as

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(Ethiopian banana),

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, and

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. The area is marked CIE and is at the centre of the map.

Name

One possible explanation of the name Chebo is from the Chebe plant, '' Croton gratissimus'' (lavender croton), which is normally burned during ''

Meskel Meskel ( gez, መስቀል, Mesk’el) is a Christian holiday in the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches that commemorates the discovery of the True Cross by the Roman Empress Helena (Saint Helena) in the fourth century. Meskel occ ...

'' damera celebrations. Another possible explanation is the name of the area where the Chebo people live. Parts of the south west Shewa Zone had been incorporated in Chebo and Gurage districtsKloos, et al. 1989 in the Shewa

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, as it was called prior to 1995.

Notable Chebo

* Esteban Mitsou Errandonea

Notes

References

* Kloos, Helmut, A. Etea, A. Degefa, H. Aga, B. Solomon, K. Abera, A. Abegaz, G. Belemo. 1987. Illness and health behaviour in Addis Ababa and rural central Ethiopia. ''Soc. Sci. Med.'', 25 (9): 1003-1019. * Kloos, Helmut, A. Adugna. 1989. Settler migration during the 1984/85 resettlement programme in Ethiopia. ''Geo Journal'', 19.2: 113-127. * Tadele, Desalegn, E. Lulekal, D. Damtie, A. Assefa. 2014. Floristic diversity and regeneration status of woody plants in Zengena Forest, a remnant montane forest patch in northwestern Ethiopia. ''Journral of Forestry Research'', 25 (2): 329-336.

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