Friday, November 9, 2012

Population Matters

Why Yem people are so few in number? There are no concrete answers for this. However, some possible explanations are :


  1. centuries of war and conflict with other ethnic groups in the area such as the Oromo, Hadyia, Gurage, and Kembata results in death of the young men
  2. disease such as malaria, TB and others 
  3. a culture that promote very  limited number of children
  4. one man for one woman (monogamy)
  5. high level of tolerance to other ethnic groups and integrating with them