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For hundreds of years the Bobo people have lived in Mali and western Burkina Faso.
They've been governed by members from
different lineages and villages, no real
centralized system.
Some think they could have lived
in Africa since 800 A.D.
They have their own language, simply the Bobo language or the Mande.
They used to have large homes but in the 20th century a lot were destroyed by the French, and there's few of those left.
They mostly farmers and grow their food
and some supplies, like cotton, pearl millet,
yams, red sorghum, and maize.
They have contact with some other tribes, like the Bwa, Bamana, Senufo, and Lofi.
They trade with those tribes, along with sometimes trading with more modern of Africa's cities.
They worship Wuro, but they also have a secondary god, Dwo, who is used to contact their creator. They have offerings and masked ceremonies for things like rites of passage and funerals.
Their eleborate masks are normally used for inducting boys into the tribe as men with dances and ceremonies, also sometimes used for things like harvest festivals. Masks seem to participate in funerals much more frequently in the Syankoma area in the south, near Bobo-Dioulasso, than in the north.
There's three stages of a boys' initiation-
"The third stage is focused on the secret language and includes new rites of initiation.The study of the secret language by the initiates lasts about ten years, because the boys of the first stage study for five years, and then, after reaching the second stage, they teach the language to their juniors for another five years. The second period helps reinforce their knowledge. The secret language which was taught to men by a mythical squirrel, includes a fundamental oral literature which transmits the myths of the origin of masks, the legends about the ancestors and supernatural beings, and the accounts of historic events."
-http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/Art%20of%20Burkina%20Faso.html#Bobo
Today they have a little over about a hundred thousand people.
Their goal is to return balance to nature that man has destroyed.
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