Publications of Dejene Gemechu Chala

Gemechu Chala, Dejene and Workineh Diribsa Gutama. 2019. The politics of personal name: naming and self-renaming among the Oromo of Ethiopia. Nordic Journal of African Studies 28(4): 1–21.

Tolasa Regassa, Mergesa and Dejene Gemechu Chala. 2019. Oromo proverbs and proverbial expressions in the customary judicial system in Ethiopia. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 13(2): 108–123. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2019-0016.

Tsegaye Aredo, Abebayehu and Dejene Gemechu Chala. 2019. Harmahodhaa: a traditional child fostering and fictive kinship formation among the Oromo, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies 6(2): 27–47.

Gemechu Chala, Dejene. 2017. Indigenous federation: the case of Borana Oromo, Ethiopia. International Indigenous Policy Journal 8(1): 1–22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2017.8.1.2 .

Gemechu Chala, Dejene. 2017. Blessing the route, striving for peace and success: Borana-Arbore ritual gift exchange. Anthropos 112(1): 153–165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2017-1-153.

Gemechu Chala, Dejene. 2014. Travelling ideologies and the resurgence of traditional institutions in post-1991 Ethiopia. In: Andrea Behrends, Sung-Joon Park, and Richard Rottenburg (eds.). Travelling models in African conflict management: translating technologies of social ordering. African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 13. Leiden: Brill, pp. 147–166.

Gemechu Chala, Dejene. 2012. Local response to the Ethiopian ethnic based federalism: conflict and conflict management among the Borana and their neighbors. PhD Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.