ሰውን መጤ ነህና ውጣ ስትይ፣ አንቺ ስር-የለሽ ወናፍ እራስሽ ከየት እንደመጣሽ እወቂ እንላታለን።
THE GALLA OF ETHIOPIA, G. W. B. HUNTINGFORD, 1955THE CONDITION OF THE GALLA IN THE
20th CENTURY
When they first arrived in Abyssinia in the 16th century, the Galla were pagan pastoralists. Since that time they have in many places become agricultural, especially in the Harar region, in Shoa, and in the Gibe States. Many of them, though not all, have been converted to Christianity or Islam; the former, through the influence of the Abyssinian church, through contact with Abyssinians, and as a result of the various Abyssinian conquests; the latter, through the foothold gained by the Moslem traders of the Middle Ages under the so-called “Empire of Zayla." After the war between the Abyssinians and Gran in the 16th century, however, both Christianity and Islam disappeared from some of the more remote Galla areas. Islam was eventually re-established through the agency of Moslem traders, and Christianity partly through the influence of the Abyssinian church and partly by the efforts of European missionaries. After the total failure of the Jesuits in the 17th century (and their valiant efforts did not touch the Galla), no European missionary work was attempted till Cardinal Massaja began his work in 1847; at about the same time Isenberg and Krapf were trying to spread European Christianity in Shoa, though not with much success. A French Catholic mission has been established for many years at Harar — such notable men as Jarosseau and de Salviac belonged to this; and eventually two other missions, the Swedish and the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society, were established in and around Harar. From the ethnographical point of view, a distinction should be made between Galla converted by European missionaries and those Christianized through the influence of Abyssinian Monophysite Christianity…
Steps were taken in the 'thirties of this century to abolish the slave trade (of which the Gibe kingdoms were a stronghold), and, as is understood, the Italians suppressed it altogether a few years later.