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Mossi

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Mossi (mŏs`ē), 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.

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

Mossi

People of Burkina Faso and other parts of western Africa, mainly Mali and Togo. They speak Mooré, a Gur language of the Niger-Congo family. Mossi society, organized as in the former Mossi states (c. 1500–1895), is divided into royalty, nobles, commoners, and formerly slaves. The morho naba (“big lord”) occupies a court in Ouagadougou. In the colonial era the Mossi acted as trading intermediaries between the forest states and the cities of the Niger. Today most of the nearly six million Mossi are sedentary farmers.
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The only postage stamp that depicted an African chief in the colonial period in West Africa was that of the Mossi chief Moro Naba Sagha (Fig.
Commemorating the chief: the politics of postage stamps in West Africa by Adedze, Agbenyega / African Arts
Colonna, 1980, 1:134 [i3v]: Et ecco una come insigne et festiva nympha d'indi cum la sua ardenre facola in mano, despartitosi da quelli, verso me dirigendo tendeva gli virginei passi, onde, manifestamente vedendo che lei era una vera er reale puella, non me mossi, ma lacto l'aspectai.
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, image, text, and vernacular poetics * by Trippe, Rosemary / Renaissance Quarterly
21, 2000, a month before the beginning of the al-Aqsa intifada, Knesset member Mossi Raz of the Meretz Party observed that settlers "continue to exert organized control over land in an illegal manner.
Israel cannot be both democracy and Jewish state if it remains in ... by Brownfeld, Allan C. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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