Shanqella

Shanqella (Amharic: ሻንቅላ šanqəlla sometimes spelled Shankella, Shangella, Shánkala, Shankalla or Shangalla) is an exonym for a number of Nilotic ethnic groups that lived in the westernmost part of Ethiopia, but are known to have also inhabited more northerly areas until the late nineteenth century.[1] A pejorative, the term was traditionally used by the local Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations to refer in general terms to darker-skinned ethnic groups, particularly to those from communities speaking Nilo-Saharan languages of Western Ethiopia. These were regarded as primitive people and slave reserves by the Abyssinians.[2][3]

  1. ^ Swainson Fisher, Richard (1852). The book of the world, Volume 2. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ^ Resettlement and Rural Development in Ethiopia Social and Economic Research, Training and Technical Assistance in the Beles Valley. F. Angeli. 1992. p. 345. ISBN 978-88-204-7260-3.
  3. ^ Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic. Ohio University Press. 2007. p. 216. ISBN 9780821417232.