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	Dagara Music: African Music and Traditional Dance of Ghana with Bernard Woma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The music and dance on this video represent the five major dialects of the Dagara and the Sissala, a tribe from the same region, both of whom use the wooden xylophone (gyil) as their main musical instrument.
		This music and dance is used to thank the ancestors for providing good rains for the harvest, and also as a merry-making celebration for youth to display their dancing skills after a hard farming season.
		Bewaa is a recreational music and circular dance of the Dagara youth, it is a joyous dance for all occasions and acts as the platform for youth to develop their dance and musical skills.
	www.dagaramusic.com /songs.shtm (678 words)

	oromo
		Er zijn 311.000 Dagara mensen in Ghana en 190.000 in Burkina Faso.
		De Dagara stam in West Afrika, maakt gebruik van een boeiend systeem om hun mensen in te delen in vijf verschillende categorieën: namelijk vuur, water, steen, aarde en natuur.
		Een dagara beschouwt iedereen die niet geïnitieerd is, hoe oud of jong ook, als een kind en pas iemand die geïnitieerd is als een volwassene.
	tatooine.fortunecity.com /eventhorizon/243/qdagara.htm (3179 words)

	Bernard Woma - Dagara Music and Arts Center
		In 1999, in the interests of sharing his knowledge with a larger group of people, Bernard opened the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Medie, Ghana, a suburb of the capital city, Accra.
		In the summer of 2000, 23 students and professors from Bowling Green State University in Ohio were the inagural class of the Dagara Music and Arts Center.
		The staff of the Dagara Music and Arts Center can help you plan an exciting cultural vacation to Ghana including a stay at the Center.
	www.bernardwoma.com /school (391 words)

	Dagara NT Bible Translation Project: The Seed Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		About 80,000 Dagara (pronounced DAH-gah-rah) people reside in the southwest part of Burkina Faso and the northwest part of Ghana.
		More than 90% of the Dagara provide for their families by subsistence farming.
		In the southern part of the Dagara area, another mission has organized some churches with Dagara believers.
	www.theseedcompany.org /project.asp?ProjectID=2230 (185 words)

	Contested boundaries : decentralisation and land conflicts in northwestern Ghana
		The agreement was criticized by some NYDA activists who felt that the Archbishop had betrayed the Dagara interests, on the grounds that it did not prevent Sisala landowners from imposing ever harsher conditions on their Dagara tenants.
		In the Taalipuo conflict, the Dagara invoked such a spot on the road between Taalipuo and Nabaala as proof that their forefathers actually owned the disputed land and that the village belonged to Nandom.
		The Dagara were fighters and pushed the Sisala further and further eastward until at a certain point, a boundary needed to be established to stop the fighting.
	apad.revues.org /document50.html (8917 words)

	Race Matters - Dagara Elders Come to U.S. to Heal Slave Trade
		The Dagara Peoples of West Africa are one of the few peoples left in Afrika who are still performing a form of Ancient burial rites for their people.
		By order of the Ancestors, the Dagara Peace Commission is conducting an international tour to perform the correct burial rites that will allow the spirits of those who died to be put to rest according to the customs and traditions of their original homelands.
		For five years, the Dagara Peace Commission has been engaged in the process of healing the energy of slavery and colonialism among Afrikans in the diaspora.
	www.racematters.org /dagaraeldershealslavetrade.htm (398 words)

	Rowena Pantaleon
		Despite the ravages of the slave trade and colonization of their lands, the Dagara people of West Africa have sustained an ancient tradition of living in community with the ancestors and in deep relationship with nature.
		Ted Duncan and Rowena Pantaleon are initiated into the medicine of the Dagara tribe under the guidance of Malidoma Some’ and the Elders in his village in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
		They have practiced Dagara Shamanism since 1995 and are committed to assisting people in opening to the healing power of the Ancestors, nature, community, and the wisdom of Kontumbli.
	www.rowenapantaleon.com /workshops/shamanism.html (490 words)

	INSIDE Chico State: Gatekeepers Between Worlds
		Acceptance came through the perilous Dagara initiation in the wilderness, a supernatural ritual that reconnected him to his ancestral past and led him on the path to becoming a shaman.
		In Dagara cosmology, geography is not only physical, but an energetic existence encompassing other realities crucial to the spiritual health of the individual and the community, explained Somé.
		Although not all gatekeepers in the Dagara tribe are gay or lesbian, "all gays and lesbians are gatekeepers," said Somé.
	www.csuchico.edu /pub/inside/archive/01_03_29/07.gatekeeper.html (474 words)

	Rüdiger Köppe Publishers, Cologne - J’apprends le dagara, ISBN: 978-3-89645-004-3
		After presenting the vowel and consonant sounds as well as the tones of the Dagara language system on a phonetic level, Penou-Achille Somé contrasts the written with the spoken Dagara and gives a detailed description of the pronunciation of letters in different linguistic environments, for which he deduces phonological and morphological rules.
		The author’s objective is to introduce a new writing system for Dagara which has the advantages of being relatively simple on the one hand — without misrepresenting the structure of the language — and on the other hand being economical in avoiding unnecessary multiplying of diacritic symbols and signs.
		The lessons are designed for francophone foreigners, such as NGO-workers in direct contact with the Dagara population, members of the academic community researching the language, and also those Dagara who would like to improve their systematic knowledge of the language.
	www.koeppe.de /katalog/katalog_detail.php?lan=en&ISBN=978-3-89645-004-3 (292 words)

	Dagara Bewaa African Music and Dance of Ghana with Bernard Woma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This performance of traditional West African xylophone music and dance, featuring one of the top musicians in Ghana and his best dancers, was recorded on location beneath the forested hills in the outskirts of Accra, capital city of Ghana.
		Dagara music is some of the oldest xylophone (balafon) and percussion music in the West Africa or the world, with complex rhythms that challenge listener and performer alike.
		La música Dagara es de las músicas de xilófono más antiguas del mundo con poliritmos complejos que desafían tanto al auditor como al intérprete.
	www.dagaramusic.com (388 words)

	Malidoma Somé,elder,initiation,Dagara
		MALIDOMA SOMÉ was born into a traditional village of the Dagara tribe in Burkina Faso in West Africa.
		The seeds of his destiny were nurtured in the first few years of his life by his shaman grandfather, Bakhyé.
		This he did in Africa, then in Paris, and in the U.S. Now living both in the modern Western world and in his indigenous tradition, his life is a reconciling bridge between two sides of human evolution at this critical time of change.
	www.abathan.org /page_5.htm (231 words)

	Echoes of the Ancestors; Malidoma Some: The Wisdom of Africa
		The Dagara tribe of West Central Africa successfully categorize their people into five different categories: fire, water, mineral, earth and nature.
		The Dagara do not encounter a strange dream experience, and then wake up acting as if it had been a spectacle, a movie.
		But believe it or not, this is the way it is. The Dagara people believe in a certain hierarchy in consciousness.
	www.schoolofwisdom.com /Malidoma (2553 words)

	Grief Ritual in the Dagara Tradition with Sobonfu Somé
		One such ritual is grieving, a soul-cleansing rite that within the traditional world of the Dagara people of West Africa is conducted almost daily in different parts of the tribe as a way of releasing tension caused by loss and restoring continuity within their relationships.
		The ancient teachings of the Dagara people as shared through Sobonfu will provide a deeply powerful and safe space to support the release of our anger, fear, guilt, numbness, indifference, frustration and grief about all the losses we have endured in this lifetime.
		Well, if they cook a sauce and you do not like it, then cook something to your own taste." If my brother did not like what was being taught, she proposed, then he should put it aside and turn his energy toward the things that interested him.
	www.shambhalamountain.org /program_detail.php?retreat=542 (1334 words)

	The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		The sociological studies by Cecile de Rouville of the 'Buur' among the Lobi of Burkina Faso (1984, 1993) do not deal specifically with the narrative aspects, and Jan Ovesen's participatory study (1987) of the ritual narrations in context has never been published in full or is still in preparation.
		On the other hand, the dialect in Goody's text is the one spoken around Birifu, the central village of a group of people who define themselves as significantly different from the Dagara of today and prefer to define their ethnic identity by the name of their main settlement, Birifor.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5001888658&er=deny (1070 words)

	African Traditional Religion in the Modern World - Studia AS
		This study analyses concepts in African traditional religion by isolating key elements in the Yoruba, Dagara, and Ibo cultures such as: sacrifice, salvation, revelation and divination, as well as African resilience in the face of invasions, colonization and outside religious assaults.
		The Yoruba, Dagara, and Ibo cultures, particularly as they relate to cosmology, symbolism, and ritual, are fundamental to the traditional religious system.
		This study analyses concepts in African traditional religion by isolatingkey elements in the Yoruba, Dagara, and Ibo cultures such as: sacrifice,salvation, revelation and divination, as well as African resilience in the faceof invasions, colonization and outside religious assaults.
	www.studia.no /vare.php?isbn=0786418354 (393 words)

	Austin Downtown Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Dagara are a tribe in the country of Burkina Faso located in West Africa.
		The Dagara believe a community is a group of individuals living together who make it their duty to insure that each of the members of the commune fulfill their individual purpose or destiny.
		The Dagara ideology of community affirms my belief that fulfillment of our individual purpose is essential to the evolution of us all.
	www.diversearts.org /old-site/ada/v6n4/earth.html (492 words)

	Dagara Digest
		We were very blessed to share what God has been doing among the Dagara and to see how much people honestly care about the work there.
		Praise God for how he is using Dagara Christians to reach out to others who would seek a relationship with God.
		We are gearing up more for this summer's batch of interns and at the same time we are preparing in advance for life with two children.
	www.dagara.org /digest (1089 words)

	Dagara Bewaa Music Video Available
		In January 2001, Bernard Woma, head xylophonist and master drummer of the Ghana National Theatre, and his award winning ensemble, the Dagara Bewaa Culture Group, performed traditional music and dance before a ten-man television production crew from one of Ghana's national TV stations.
		There are five dialects in the Dagara tribe, and this group is the flagbearer of the various forms of rich traditional music and dances throughout the Dagara land.
		The group is based at the Dagara Music Center in Accra, a music school founded by Bernard Woma to teach African music and dance.
	ghanamusic.com /artman/publish/printer_795.shtml (279 words)

	malidoma.com
		“Dagara people’s main job is to look the dead in the face, to treat their bodies not as remains but as temples of grace and beauty continuing from this world to the other.
		This series of rituals, based on Dagara tradition, is designed to help them make that transition.
		The Dagara believe that the deceased can become powerful allies once they are fully "at home" in the ancestral realm.
	www.malidoma.com /programs/ancestralization.html (234 words)

	Dagara Bewaa Culture Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This performance of traditional West African xylophone music and dance, featuring one of Ghana's top musicians and his best dancers, was recorded on location beneath the forested hills in the outskirts of Accra, Ghana's capital city.
		Dagara music is some of the oldest xylophone music in the world, with complex polyrhythms that challenge listener and performer alike.
		This live performance video is offered for sale as a means of sharing Dagara music and culture with the global community of music teachers, students, and enthusiasts.
	www.ghanamusic.com /artman/publish/printer_102.shtml (168 words)

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		Used for thousands of years by the Dagara people of West Africa, this form enables us to align ourselves — and others - with our life purpose, and the ways of nature and spirit.
		Echoes of the Ancestors was born in response to the strong need to give a context in which Dagara ancestral beliefs and tradition, wisdom, and culture can be brought to the West and shared with people in modern culture who are seeking an indigenous model of spiritual and holistic development.
		Echoes also provides a vehicle for seekers to give back to the Dagara, and other indigenous people of Africa, to help them in their material needs, and to cope with modernity.
	www.rowenapantaleon.com /files/LondonEvent2004.doc (941 words)

	Dagara NT Bible Translation Project: The Seed Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		About 80,000 Dagara (pronounced DAH-gah-rah) people reside in the southwest part of Burkina Faso and the northwest part of Ghana.
		They live in small villages scattered over a large area extending a distance of 118 miles from north to south, and 64 miles from east to west.
		In the southern part of the Dagara area, another mission has organized some churches with Dagara believers.
	theseedcompany.org /project.asp?ProjectID=2230 (185 words)

	Kuba and Lentz (2002) Arrows and earth shrines: towards a history of Dagara expansion in southern Burkina Faso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Throughout the region the control over earth shrines, at which sacrifices to the spirits of the land are made, marked legitimate land ownership.
		However, the Phuo, Sisala and Dagara ways of establishing earth shrines and recruiting the shrine custodians differed.
		The Dagara system, with its characteristic fission of existing shrines and networks of interlinked shrines, allowed mobility and helped the migrants bring new territories under their ritual control.
	www.getcited.org /pub/103421984 (277 words)

	Bibliography of Dagaare Studies
		Assertion et mode en dagara, in Linguistique Africaine 4.
		Customary law of the Dagara of northern Ghana: indigenous rules or a social construction.
		Arrows and earth shrines: towards a history of Dagara expansion in southern Burkina Faso.
	www.hku.hk /linguist/staff_ab.DagaareBibliog.html (1306 words)

	Themes in African Creation Stories
		Malidoma means "be friends with the stranger/enemy" in the Dagara language and this is Malidoma's mission in life.
		What is even more intriguing is that, in the Dagara culture, when a baby is born he or she is not considered a new being, as it is believed in Western culture and religion.
		As Malidoma displays, in Dagara culture, along with most traditional African culture, magic is viewed positively and is at the core of religion.
	dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu /diaspora/nicole.html (715 words)

	ARTIST NII ADDICO / Portfolio - Masks
		The Agoro mask is from the Dagara tribe located in the Northern regions of Ghana, West Africa.
		This mask is from the Dagara tribe, in the north of Ghana.
		Only one of the two styles of Dagara is shown, the other style features iron rings in the ears and nose of the mask.
	www.creationafrica.com /sub/portfolio_masks.html (653 words)

	Music in Ghana ::::Music in Ghana Reviews - Bernard Woma
		(The Dagara people play the xylophone in church worship music much as the Westerners play the organ.) There he began to set his own words to traditional melodies and compose his own music.
		In 1982, when Bernard had almost finished his schooling, he had no means to continue paying school fees and moved to the capital city of Accra to earn money.
		There, he played the gyil for traditional Dagara dancing and became well-known in the community.
	www.musicinghana.com /migsite/home/bernard1.php (698 words)

	Of Water and the Spirit
		At 22, Malidoma was asked, by his elders, to relay the Dagara culture to the West in order to bring a greater understanding and acceptance of it.
		He began his education in the Dagara village where he was born, with the help of his community, especially his grandfather.
		The missionaries' behavior and the similarities between some aspects of dagara culture and current thought processes were two of the most remarkable elements of Of Water and the Spirit.
	dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu /diaspora/water.html (1482 words)

	Ghana Recognizes Dagara Music Centre
		The Dagara Music Centre, located in Medie, Ghana (a suburb of the capital city, Accra) was recently designated as an official tourist destination by Ghana's Ministry of Tourism.
		The center is also the home of the award winning Dagara Dance troupe, one of the leading traditional music and dance groups of Ghana.
		The Dagara Dance Troupe is also preparing to record a DVD that is to be released by the end of the year.
	www.jumbierecords.com /Resources/articles/2006_ghana-recognizes-bernard.html (285 words)

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