Anywaa Kindom History

The Anywaa people(Anuak) are Nilotic people indigenous to Akobo, Pochalla and Jokau districts in the Sudan and Gambela State in the Ethiopian empire.These people who speak similar language to the Luo language family in both kenya, Uganda and Tanzania were also inhabitants of the today Nassir area along the Sobat river.
The Anywaa people until late 70s were under the centeralised traditional political system without consideration to the artificail boundries which divides them between the today modern states in the horn of Africa;Ethiopia and the Sudan Republic. It was after the Ethiopian revolution of 1974 which destroyed the eastern Anywaa political system and cultural values that the Anywaa people came under the strick colonail rule of the foriegn governments administration.

Gambela History

Gambela nation is a small British territory in the south western Ethiopian empire bordering Oromia nation in the east, southern nation, nationalities and people state in the south and the Sudan republic in the west and north.This small territory formerly known as Pa-Anywaa indicating the indigenous population that do not only ocuppy the entire today Gambela nation in the Ethiopain empire but also the land accross the interntaional border; Akobo, Pochalla and Jokau districts in the Sudan.

Its capital, Gambela, was established as a commercail port in 1907 interconnecting the Abyssinains highland and the Sudan republic under the British administration. It fall under the Italian rule in 1936 after which it was recaptured by the British in 1941. In 1951 Gambela came under the British rule directly from the Sudan until 1956 where it was reincorporated into the Ethiopian empire.

Gambela is a homeland of five ethnic groups; namely, Anywaa(Anuak), Nuer, majanger, Komo and Opuo. It is also a nation endowed with a variety of wild life and fish species.The four rivers that gives beauty to the nation are source of agricultural potentails. Both ethnic groups are distinct from the rest of the Ethiopian population in that they are culturally, physically, linguistically and historcally unique.

Gambela nation has an estimated population of over 1.5 million contrary to the official statistics published by the government to serve as a base for economic and socail deveploments buget allocation. Due to its remoteness the census usually do not cover the entire nation such as the exerme bank of Akobo and Gilo rivers inhabitants. Openo (Baro) river is one of the largest and widest river in the horn of Africa.

The economy of the nation is entriely depends on the agricultural product using primative and traditional faming system. Its agricultural potentail is great enough to attrack local and international investors. Gambela also has a great tourism potentails with variey of beaches located on the four main rivers and it is also one of the National parks in the Ethiopian empire. Lake Tata, located 120km far away from Gambela town has attractive tourist site yet undedeveloped. Trade industry in the nation is so underdeveloped with small trade institutions own by the minority highland population in the nation.

Education is a new area of modernization in the nation with very few of the native population completing high school education. Less than one percent of the indigenous population have managed to graduate from higher education institutions in the country and abroad. Women are the most disadvantaged group in the society due to various social and cultural pressures. None of them has ever join high education instituions in the country or abroad.