The Omo Valley

In many areas, particularly those who live in the lower Omo valley all with unique traditions and cultures; could be home to so many different ethnic and cultural groups.

Amazingly, these small groups were interrelated in such a way that overtime, they underwent their own evaluation marked by a process of displacement, changes in survival means, symbiotic relationships, conflicts and acculturation under the influence of the dominate groups.

The entire Omo region is inhabited by ethno cultural groups pertaining to two important linquistic lines.
1. Nilo - Saharan - Nyangatom (Bume), Nursi, Surma
2. Afro - Asiatic - Omotic - Karo, Banna, Bashada, Hamer Dizi Eastern Cushitic, Dasenech, Erbore, Tsemako.

In General, the Nilo - Saharans occupy the eastern parts of the lower Omo and extend to the south west where they meet up with other Nilotic peoples, such as the meen, multe, Annuak or Nuer people who are related to Nilotic peoples from Sudan and Uganda.

As far as the Omotics and cushitics are concerned, they occupy the eastern part of the lower omo and have relations with Cushitic populations such as the Sidamo and the Oromo, as well as northern omotic peoples such as the Ari, Basketo, Bench, Dizi, and Wolaita.

The two large ethno linguistic groups occupy both plains and mountains adjacent tot eh lower Omo.

The Lower Omo valley Feveals a tangle of interrelated ethno cultural groups whose survival has produced a range of peoples.

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