The Konso people are famous by their terraced agricultural
landscapes, remarkable feats of human engineering and social
organization. Which enabling for the conservation of soil and water
as well as the cultivation of food. Indigenous terraced landscapes
are all the more valuable because they have been produced by the
people themselves and maintained for several hundred years,
evidencing a valuable degree of sustainability. Konso cultural
landscape registered the 9th world heritage site of Ethiopia in 2011
world heritage session in Bahrain.
They have also a community system in their village where people live
close together as other African village and densely populated area
in the country. There is also a wooden statue called Waka that
erected on the burial for the konso warrior which has a cultural and
traditional value in Konso people and also the Generational pole
erected in communal place in the village called Mora.
When a hero or important man has died, waga figure are carved in his
honor. They are placed in and around the fields, and not necessarily
where the man has been buried. The deceased is usually represented
in the center of the waga group and flanked by his wife. On the
outside stand any enemies he may have killed, carved in an abstract
and phallic fashion. Fierce animals he has slain, such as leopard,
lion or a crocodile, will also be depicted and placed at his feet.
In front of the central figure, representing the deceased is his
shield on his forehead a phallic symbol is carved.