DAGARA BAGR: RITUALISING MYTH OF SOCIAL FOUNDATION.
Africa, September, 1999 by Tengan, Alexis B.
Much has been written on the groups of people who today call themselves Dagara, Dagaaba, Lobi and Birifor, and who mostly inhabit the North West Region of Ghana and the south-west of Burkina Faso. The language spoken throughout this region consists of different varieties of speech and dialects (Girault, 1967; Manessy, 1979; Delplanque, 1983; Bodomo, 1997).
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The particular bagr narration upon which this article concentrates was recorded in the dialect commonly spoken in the Nandom-Diebougou area of northwest Ghana and south-western Burkina Faso. These people today refer to themselves ...
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