Evidence of "Villagization" Scheme to Concentrate People

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Date of image

1991

Creator

Lewis, Herbert S.

Place

Ethiopia

Source

University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries, Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent; African Studies Collection

The government tried to move people into villages for economically sound reasons such as providing better services, but they also wanted people less dispersed in order to enable controlling them. The result was ecologically detrimental. People had to walk further to reach their farmlands, and during the civil war villages were easily attacked and burned down.

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