MOSSI

mŏsˈē, African people, numbering about 2.5 million, mostly in Burkina Faso. From c.a.d. 1000 the Mossi were organized into several kingdoms, one of which has continued to the present day. Despite long and intimate contact with Muslims, the Mossi have retained their ancient traditional religion, which has a strong emphasis on ancestor worship.

See P. B. Hammond, Yatenga (1966).

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books on: Mossi  - 314 results

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1.
The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary
Book by James S. Olson; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Africa--Social Life And Customs--Dictionaries, Ethnohistory--Africa--Dictionaries, Ethnology--Africa--Dictionaries
MOSSI. The Mossi Mole, Moshi today are a large ethnic group occupying the Volta River...in West Africa. Their population exceeds 5.5 million people. The Mossi dominate the region between the Red Volta and the White Volta rivers in...
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Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa
Book by Pierre Englebert; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Burkina Faso--Politics And Government, National State--History--20th Century, Nationalism--Burkina Faso--History--20th Century
...been for sedentary farmers such as the Mossi, Bissa, and Gurmanche to entrust their...an animal. The advantages to both the Mossi and the Peuls are numerous. 45 For both...the Peuls are experienced herders and the Mossi able agriculturalists whose labor force...
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Hoe and Wage: A Social History of a Circular Migration System in West Africa
Book by Dennis D. Cordell, Joel W. Gregory, Victor Piché; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Migration, Internal--Africa, West--History, Migration, Internal--Burkina Faso--History
clusion. First, much Mossi mobility during this early period was...seasonal, and the closer proximity of Mossi territories to colonial Ghana probably...explanation. Although it lay farther away, the Mossi also returned with greater regularity...
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Africa, Angry Young Giant
Book by Smith Hempstone; Praeger, 1961
Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan
emperor and Moro is the singular of Mossi is about the only native ruler left in...capital , the Moro Nabas 1.5 million Mossi tribesmen regard him as the incarnate deity...and influence are immense. The present Mossi emperor, a generously proportioned man...
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French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa
Book by Ruth Ginio; University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Subjects: Africa, French-Speaking West--Colonial Influence, Africa, French-Speaking West--History--1884-1960, World War, 1939-1945--Africa, French-Speaking West
...Upper Volta in the colonial period). The Mossi of Ouagadougou, the strongest of the kingdoms...ruler, the Moro Naba, superior to all Mossi kings. He had the status of a sacred king...British accepted French sovereignty over Mossi territory, the Moro Naba chose exile in...
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journal articles on: Mossi  - 94 results

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Shorter Notices
Journal article by Katja Werthmann, Deborah Potts, Alejandro Colas, John A. Weiseman; Africa, Vol. 69, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Contested Lands in Southern and Eastern Africa: A Literature Survey (Book)--Reviews, Historical Dictionary of Tunisia, 2d ed. (Book)--Reviews, Mutter zwischen Herd und Markt. Das Verhaltnis von Mutterschaft, sozialer Elternschaft und Frauenarbeit bei den Moose (Mossi) in Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso (Book)--Reviews, Non-governmental Organizations in Malawi: Their Contribution to Development and Democratization (Book)--Reviews
...Elternschaft und Frauenarbeit bei den Moose (Mossi) in Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso Mothers...social parenthood and womens work among the Mossi in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Baseler...undertook fieldwork about the everyday lives of Mossi women in an urban environment. The book...
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Fourteen Films on African Art
Journal article by Peri M. Klemm; African Arts, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: A Year in the Life of an African Family: The Bamogo Family of Burkina Faso (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, African Art in Performance: The Winiama Masks of the Village of Ouri (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, African Artas Theater: The Bwa Masks of the Gnoumou Family of Boni (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, African Sculpture: Carving a Crocodile Mask, Shaping a Mask of Leaves (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, African Weaving: Spinning, Strip Weaving in Burkina, Kente in Ghana (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Artas a Verb in Africa: The Masks of the Bwa Village of Boni (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Arts of Ghana: Brass Casting, Pottery, Adinkra, Kente, Stool Carving (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Birds of the Wilderness: The Beauty Competition of the Wodaabe People of Niger (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Fourteen Films on African Art: The Death of an African King (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, From Iron Ore to Iron Hoe: Smelting Iron in Africa (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Fulani: Art and Life of a Nomadic People (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Masks of Leaves and Wood: The Bwa People of Burkina Faso (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Sound recordings--Sound recording reviews, Speaking With God: A Mossi Baga Diviner in Burkina Faso (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews, Spinning, Strip Weaving in Burkina, Kente in Ghana (Motion picture)--Sound recording reviews
...Family of Boni; Speaking With God: A Mossi Baga Diviner in Burkina Faso; African...learn that the reserved movements of the Mossi baga, who dances to summon ancestral spirits...the early 1970s along with the help of Mossi collaborators and cameramen has enabled...
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The Personhood of Women and Community Development in a Burkinabe Village
Journal article by Marta Rohatynskyj; Anthropologica, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Africa, Community development, Social conditions & trends, Women
...fringe of what is sometimes called the Great Mossi Plateau . The cultivation of millet and...shortages of both water and pasture. The Mossi, th e other major ethnic group of the...seen as both prestigious and profitable. Mossi cattl e are often entrusted to Fulbe herders...
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Human Resilience and Environmental Degradation: the Eco-cultural Link in the Sahel
Journal article by E. Heleen Van Haaften, Fons J. R Van de Vijver; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 10, 2003
...two groups of Sahel dwellers, namely the Mossi (agriculturalists, n = 402) and the...use in the village of their husband. The Mossi are sedentary farmers, growing millet...is patrilineal and virilocal. Married Mossi women have an inalienable right of land...
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In Search of Nyo: Lyela Farmers' Perceptions of the Forest in Burkina Faso
Journal article by Sten Hagberg; Africa, Vol. 71, 2001
Subjects: Burkina Faso--Environmental aspects, Cultural policy--Burkina Faso, Farmers--Social aspects, Forests and forestry--Social aspects, Land use--Analysis
...strangers; the main groups of `strangers are Mossi farmers (sing. Moaga, pl. Moose in...Yet the Fulbe do not destroy like the Mossi. The Fulbe do not destroy, but their...Tiogo made the following statement: `The Mossi destroy the trees when they harvest. For...
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magazine articles on: Mossi  - 22 results

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Letter from Ouagadougou
Magazine article by William F.S. Miles; The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, Winter 2006
...the dominant tribe in Ouagadougou are the Mossi, I hoped that there might also be some...Tigre, minister of the emperor of the Mossi. It was the Larle Naaba who had spoken...paramount chiefs below the emperor in the Mossi hierarchy. In colonial times the French...
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Africa's Cannes
Magazine article by Steven Williams; African Business, December 1996
Subjects: Burkina Faso--Description and travel
...are proud of their illustrious history, particularly the Mossi kingdoms. From the mid-15th century until the arrival of the French colonialists in the late-19th century, the Mossi created a buffer zone that resisted both the powerful Mali...
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DR. CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS: Celebrating Our Glorious History(*)
Magazine article by Phil W. Petrie; Negro History Bulletin, July 1998
Subjects: College teachers--Conduct of life, Howard University--Officials and employees, Williams, Chancellor--Conduct of life
...to any of them. There should have been no question that the Mossi States (sandwiched between the Songhay and Mali empires in...and Christianity as the white mans vehicles of conquest. The Mossi restricted both, believing that when the first white man appeared...
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Burkina Faso: Social & Economic Development
Magazine article by Newal K. Agnihotri; Presidents & Prime Ministers, Vol. 7, May 1998
Subjects: Burkina Faso--Politics and government, Democracy--Burkina Faso, Zidouemba, Bruno N.--Attitudes
...brightness and the refinement of the political and social organization that prevailed, for example, in the Mossi Kingdoms. To date, the Mossi, which constitute approximately 50% of the population, remain attached to these traditional structures...
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The Africa Project: a Collaboration between a Creative Movement Consultant, an Anthropologist, and an Art Educator
Magazine article by Kate Kuper, Sandra Bales, Jonathan Zilberg; Art Education, Vol. 53, March 2000
Subjects: Africa, Anthropology, Art education, Art galleries & museums, Krannert Art Museum-Illinois, Teaching
...fetish," and "tribe." He showed parts of the video Art and Death in Africa: Yaaba Soore (1986), a short film on Mossi masquerades in Mali, and complemented this with a lecture using slides of Bobo masquerades taken by Mahir Saul in nearby Burkina...
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newspaper articles on: Mossi  - 12 results

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A Passion for Purple This Season
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 20, 2007
...vase might set your pulse racing, then take a look at the "Mossi" design from Lalique (020 7499 8228/www.lalique.com...and clear crystal, and much of it is very collectible. The "Mossi" vase costs pounds 1,089 - so it definitely has heirloom...
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Design: Your Home Can Be the Plum Centre of Style; Gabrielle Fagan Looks at How to Add Purple Power to Your Rooms
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 11, 2007
...are collectors items, which explains why its stunning purple Mossi Velvet vase is pounds 1,089. Stockists ASDA - 0500 100 055...in purple, with prices starting from pounds 195; Crystal Mossi Velvet vase - a Lalique collectors item, pounds 1,089; Aubergine...
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Drug Tests OK for Students in Extracurricular Ventures
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 28, 2002
...to create the policies they and the community believe will best address the problem of student drug abuse," NSBA President Mossi White said. The National Education Association opposes testing when there is no suspicion. "When we have situations where...
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62: Mark Mcgwire's Home Runs
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 9, 1998
Subjects: McGwire, Mark
...21 (57) - June 13, at Cleveland (Perry) 22 (58) - June 14, at Cleveland (Bell) 23 (61) - June 17, at Detroit (Mossi) 24 (62) - June 18, at Detroit (Casale) 25 (63) - June 19, at Kansas City (Archer) 26 (64) - June 20, at Kansas...
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Discovering Hidden Hindi in Cymru
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 6, 2005
...Here are a few, in English, then Welsh, then Hindi: 1. Mother - Mam - Ma 2. Brother - Brawd - Pra 3. Aunt - Modryb - Mossi 4. One - Un - Ek 5. Two - Dau - Do 6. Seven - Saith - Saath 7. Nine - Naw - Naw 8. Lazy - Diog - Dila 9. Tooth - Dant...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mossi  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Mossi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MOSSI mos e, African people, numbering about...Burkina Faso. From c.a.d. 1000 the Mossi were organized into several kingdoms, one...long and intimate contact with Muslims, the Mossi have retained their ancient traditional religion...
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Burkina Faso
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ethnic groups, the principal group is the Mossi, who account for almost half of the total...central and E Burkina Faso, establishing the Mossi states of Ouagadougou, Yatenga, and Tengkodogo...into a total of about 300 districts. The Mossi states had strong armies, which included...
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Ouagadougou
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Niamey, Niger. Ouagadougou was founded in the late 11th cent. as the capital of a Mossi empire ruled by the moro naba ruler of the world. It remained a center of Mossi power until 1896, when French forces captured it...
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Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...interior regions. Sub-Saharan Africa is occupied by a diverse variety of peoples including, among others, the Amhara, Mossi , Fulani , Yoruba , Igbo , Kongo (see Kongo, kingdom of ), Zulu (see Zululand ), Akan , Oromo , Masai , and Hausa . Europeans...
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African Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Leone, such as Mende in Liberia and Malinke in Mali. Gur, or Voltaic, is made up of several language groups and includes Mossi, the dominant tongue of Burkina Faso, as well as the Dagomba and Mamprusi of N Ghana. The Kwa languages, spoken chiefly...


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