From the 11th century, The Mossi community created a number of separate kingdoms and they ruled the territory up to the end of the 19th century. This era was characterized by smelting and forging of weapons and tools.īetween the 8th and the 15th century, a number of ethnic groups of modern-day Burkina Faso, for instance, Dyula, Fula, and Mossi started arriving in the country.
This culture was found in the present-day southeast region of Burkina Faso and southwest Niger. The Iron-Age Civilization era was experienced from the 3rd to the 13th centuries AD via the Bura culture. Agricultural villages were then formed between 36 BC. The country’s history is made up of the history of a number of kingdoms, for instance, the Mossi Kingdoms, French colonization of the region, and its sovereignty in 1960 as the Republic of Upper Volta.ĭwarf Mask, late 19th century, SourceFrom 14,000 BC to 5,000 BC, the northwest region of modern-day Burkina Faso was inhabited by hunter-gatherers and their tools such as arrowheads, chisels, and scrapers were found in 1973via archaeological digs. The country was initially referred to as the Republic of Upper Volta and was renamed ‘Burkina Faso’ by Thomas Sankara, on 4th August 1984. The nation is a neighbor to six countries Ivory Coast to the southwest, Benin to the southeast, Ghana and Togo to the south, Niger to the east, and Mali to the north. Subjects History Chief executive Territorial hierarchy Form and rules of government Traditional history External relations Ethnic stratification Status, role, and prestige Territorial hierarchy Lineages Sacred objects and places Family Marriage Community structure culture Mossi HRAF PubDate 2009 Region Africa Sub Region Western Africa Document Type Book Evaluation Ethnologist-5 Analyst John Beierle 1965-1968 Coverage Date 1481-1957 Coverage Place Burkina Faso Notes Elliott Percival Skinner Includes bibliographical references(p.Burkina Faso is situated in West Africa and it is a landlocked country. For lack of available information on the 'Ninisi,' an aboriginal people living in the Upper Volta area prior to the coming of the Mossi, information on this group has been subsumed under Mossi (FA28). The last three chapters of this work present a culture history of Mossi-European relations, and the resulting changes taking place in Mossi political structure as the result of the European conquest of these people. Additional information may also be found on law and judicial procedures, economic foundations, and religion and government. Particular emphasis in this source is on the Mogho Naba (the supreme chief or emperor of the Mossi), his household, ministers, and various territorial chiefs (e.g., provincial, district and village chiefs), and the various levels of interaction between them. The field work was further supplemented by data gathered from various government documents and ethnographies on the Mossi.
The author gathered his data in the Upper Volta Republic between November 1955 and January 1957, a period during which many important political changes were taking place in this region, and most of the field work was done in the territory formerly included in the kingdom of Ouagadougou, although short visits were also made to the Yatenga, Tenkodogo, and Boussouma regions. AbstractThis document presents an intensive study of the political development of the Mossi people, a Sudanese negroid group occupying the Republic of the Upper Volta, West Africa.
Book The Mossi of the Upper Volta: the political development of a Sudanese people Stanford University Press
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