The last two decades of the nineteenth century witnessed the conquest and colonization of independent states and peoples of southern, southwestern and western Ethiopia. The Gibe Oromo states were among the southwestern states that were targeted for conquest by both Shawa and Gojjam in the late 1870s. In fact, the time was unfortunate time for the Gibe Oromo states because it was a time when they were trying to become powerful in the region by controlling different commercial centers in the one hand and suffered leadership crisis in the other (Tesema, 2008).
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