The Dagaaba people (singular Dagao, and, in northern dialects, Dagara for both plural and singular) are an ethnic group located north of the convergence...
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Dagaare is the language of the Dagaaba people of Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast. It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes...
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group include the following peoples: Dagomba Mossi Mamprusi Nabit Talni Kamara Kantosi Hanga Kusasi Gurene Nanumba Builsa Dagaaba Wala Historical Leaders...
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related Dagaaba people of Ghana and Burkina Faso and are known for complex interlocking (double meter) patterns on the xylophone (gyil). The Mossi people, whose...
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would sometimes cross-dress as women during initiation ceremonies. The Dagaaba people, who lived in Burkina Faso, believed that homosexual men were able to...
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C. D. Benni (category Dagaaba people)
was born at Nandom, now in the Upper West Region of Ghana where the Dagaaba people are located. His secondary school education was at the Government Secondary...
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Nuotama Bodomo (category Dagaaba people)
director. Born in Ghana, to parents who are both educators, Bodomo is Dagaaba. She was also raised in Norway and Hong Kong, before moving to New York...
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Alban Bagbin (category Living people)
farmers. He is the fourth child of nine children. He is a member of the Dagaaba ethnic group. He hails from Sombo, Upper West Region of Ghana. Alban Bagbin...
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of the language as of 2013. Their neighbors are the Birifor, Dagaaba, and Vagla peoples. Their culture is similar to other Gur-speaking, Senoufo and Mande...
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minimalist music of Steve Reich, and then spent three years with the Dagaaba people of the Upper West Region of Ghana. There she learned music and xylophone...
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The Birifor people (also Birifo or Malba) are an ethnic group of about 200,000 in West Africa, primarily located in northern Ghana, southern Burkina Faso...
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Wa, Ghana (section Notable People)
ethic groups who resided in Wa include the Wala, the Sisaala, and the Dagaaba. There is public transport from Wa to major cities such as Accra; Kumasi...
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region. The people are mainly Dagaaba (from the Dagara tribe) and they speak an indigenous language called Dagaare. History has it that the Dagaaba came all...
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Dagombas are the founders of the Bouna state of the Ivory Coast, and the Dagaaba states of Upper West Region of Ghana. The homeland of the Dagomba, Dagbon...
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Tamale, Ghana (section Notable people)
ethnic groups who resided in Tamale are Dagomba, Gonja, Mamprusi, Akan, and Dagaaba. The city grew from a small village to an important economic center in...
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List of contemporary ethnic groups (redirect from List of peoples)
G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by status: List of Indigenous peoples List of diasporas List of stateless nations regional lists: Ethnic groups...
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Mossi people, centrally located around the capital, Ouagadougou, account for 40% of the population while, to the south, Gurunsi, Gurma, Dagaaba and Lobi...
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2307/3335909. ISSN 0001-9933. JSTOR 3335909. Wegru, Joseph Yelepuo. "The Dagaaba-Frafra Joking Relationship". Retrieved 24 March 2013. Tengolzor Ba-an,...
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south, east, and west are inhabited by Dagara people. The Dagara of the Nandom municipal area and the Dagaaba to the south of Nandom are the same ethnic...
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goddess of rain in Woyo mythology (Kongo). Saa ngmin, God of rain in Dagaaba mythology (Upper West Region of Ghana) Fwha, Goddess of rain, fertile regions...
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traditional dance and festival unique to the people of Lawra area of north-western Ghana. They are also called the Dagaaba tribe. The dance and the festival named...
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Biglobosa) and the beginning of the farming season. The local people are called Dagaaba, and speak Dagaare, which is a Gur branch of the Niger–Congo language...
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emerged from Dagbon include the Bouna Kingdom of Ivory Coast, and the Dagaaba states of the Upper West Region of Ghana. There are two main houses among...
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Salifu Dagarti (category Ghanaian people stubs)
2019-12-29. Retrieved 2020-08-12. "The Story of How Supt. Salifu Dagarti, a Dagaaba Security guard, Took a Bullet for Kwame Nkrumah at the Flagstaff House"...
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Mossi people, centrally located around the capital, Ouagadougou, account for 40% of the population while, to the south, Gurunsi, Gurma, Dagaaba and Lobi...
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provided by a king to his royal lineage. Two Tribes in Ghana, Frafra and Dagaaba are particularly known to be "tribal playmates" and consumption of dog...
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Anthony Karbo (category Living people)
deputy minister for Roads and Highways in Ghana. Karbo is a member of the Dagaaba ethnic group and hails from Lawra in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He...
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Dannabang Kuwabong (category Year of birth missing (living people))
literature at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Konga and other Dagaaba Folktales. Visions of Venom (poetry)1995 Echoes from Dusty Rivers (poetry)...
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claim to be the biggest village in the entire municipal. The people are mainly Dagaabas and they speak an indigenous language called Dagaare. The religion...
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