Abstract:
This study analyzes a history of Sokoru District up to 2010. By focusing on local data mainly argaadhageettii (oral information) carefully gathered from key informants especially elders and
supplemented with available written materials. The pertinent source recorded was qualitatively
analyzed based on historical research methods mainly disruptive and narrativestyles. The thesis
explores socio-political, economic and cultural aspects. The thesis begins with a description and
analysis of the Oromo in the area by taking into account the sixteenth century. Oromo movement and
the subsequent developments facilitated the present settlement pattern of the Maccaa Oromo. It also
showed the expansion of the Sadacha group of Maccaa to the Gibe region, which gradually changed
way of economic life and socio-political progresses witnessed in the Gibe region. Furthermore, the
thesis attempts to assess the socio-political, economic and cultural progresses and a history of Mufti
Sadekiyo in the expansion of Islam into the Sokoru district and its sorrounding. The flourishing of trade
was followed by the introduction and deep-rooted Islamization of the the Sokoru District. The paper
also sheds light on the bilingualism and lagacies of Italian period in the Sokoru District. In addition
this thesis discussed traditional religion that practiced by a society.This thesis also highlights the
impact of the incorporation of Sokoru on the socio-economic and political system of the Oromo of the
area and the changes and continuities that occurred. Finally, it pinpoints the reaction and/ or the
adaptations to the changing socio-political, economic system and developments of infrastructure in the
twentieth century to 2010.
