Abstract:
The objective of the study is to investigate the history of resettlement and villagization
schemes in Ilu Abbaa Boor‟s Yayyoo, Dorrannii and Hurrummuu districts from 1950 - 1991).
The study covers the period from 1950 to1991. The purpose of the study is to fill the gaps
which not studied about the history of the resettlement and villagization programs in Ilu Abba
Boor in genrerl and particularly in the study areas. The study is enriched with data gathered
from primary and secondary sources. In regard to primary data, investigation was conducted
on oral sources and achievable materials available in the study area. This was done with the
objective to collect genuine data for the research at hand. Here, careful interviews were
administered with oral informants to collect authentic oral information, which offered the
researcher with the favorable condition to substantiate the study; and different unpublished
and published docments have also been investigated. The study argues resettlement and
villagization could bring relative change on the pre-existing indigenous social, political,
economic, cultural, religious, etc., affairs of the native inhabitants. In addition, the study
argues that the two programs caused ecological degradation, and became the cause for the
occurrence of pervasive soil erosion and reduction of subsistence production. The study
shows that the implementation of resettlement and villagization programs had been the
causes for the introduction of some cultural elements co-existed with the pre-existing
indigenous cultural values. It also reveals how the 1950s resettlement program was initiated
to achieve the rural transformation objective, which failed to bring success because of lack of
plan. It is also showing how the implementation of the two schemes was provided the state
with the chance to secure food security without foreign support. Howeve, the two rural
transformation programs failed because of lack of the consent of the people and unexpected
political dynamic seen globally and locally. The research findings reveal how vllsgization
and resettlement badly affected the low social group like artisians in their traditional
economic activities and cultural settlement patterns. The research finaily shows that the two
programs were failed due to the change in political transformation world wide.
