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Introduction
Qaalisha [Google maps: Kalisha] is a suburb of Hosanna, near the compound of the present Wachemo University. Qaalisha is located approximately 2 km east of the headquarters of the Mekane Yesus Synod and about 6 km southeast of the headquarters of the Kale Heywet Church in the suburb known as Bobicho.
Cultural anthropologists Ulrich Braukämper and Siegfried Seyfarth used Qaalisha as one of their bases in the early 1970s.
- Among other things, Braukämper was permitted to attend séances of a possession spirit there (Fandaanano, p. 250, etc.).
Choirs
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Audio
The following recordings of gospel songs were made mainly by Dr. Seyfarth around 1972. They include a Hadiyya responsorial song (track 33) and several Amharic hymns:
Video
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Cross-references
Hosanna Mekane Yesus “A” Choir
Amharic hymnal Səbhat läʼamlak (ስብሐት ለአምላክ),
1951 and 1963 editions
Further reading
Braukämper, Ulrich. Fandaanano: The Traditional Socio-Religious System of the Hadiyya in Southern Ethiopia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. [View Braukämper on cults of spirit possession]
Diemel, Claus. “Reise zu den Hadiyya in Qaalisha bei Hossana über Addis Abeba, mit Wendo Genet und Shashemene [in 1999],” in Schweifgebiete: Festschrift für Ulrich Braukämper, edited by Alke Dohrmann, Dirk Bustorf, and Nicole Poissonier, p. 275‒287. Münster, etc.: Lit, 2010. [On cultural and gospel songs in Qaalisha, see p. 282 and 284]
Seyfarth, Siegfried. “Äthiopisches Tagebuch,” (ed. by U. Braukämper) in Donum Natalicum Siegfried Seyfarth, edited by Diethelm Belgenknecht, p. 35‒79. Frankfurt/Main: Ineptiae Verlag, 1990.
- Copy available in the library of the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt.
Ref. Code: Vk V 288