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  Moose
The Mossi states have existed for at least 500 years; the exact dates and origins of the states and their ruling clans are still debated by scholars.
The Mossi are noted as the major—if not the only—Sahelian states to withstand the spread of Islam in the region.
At the time of the French conquest, the oldest—but smallest and weakest—Mossi state, Tenkodogo, was engaged in a war of mutual raids with a chiefdom to its north, which in turn was a dependency of a buffer state on the edge of the largest Mossi kingdom, Ouagadougou.
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 Burkina Faso
C.E. Written sources mention the Mossi in connection with raids on the Sahelian towns of Timbuktu and Walata, and throughout the Middle Ages as anti-Islamic enemies of the Mali and Songhay kings.
The traditional Mossi aristocracy and the emerging intellectual elite protested against the dissolution of Upper Volta, and their continued agitation was rewarded in 1947 by the reconstitution of the colony.
State employees and employees in parastatals and larger private companies benefit from social security, but for the vast majority there is no social welfare.
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 Mossi
However, a Mossi raid on the city of Timbuktu in 1329 is described in Arab histories.
In 1996, the estimated population of Burkina Faso was 10,623,323.
The Mossi's account of their founding is handed down through the following myth: Over forty generations ago, a king named Naba Nedega had a daughter whom he would not allow to marry because she was a great warrior.
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 Mossi_Mask_Styles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The horsemen from the south established themselves as political rulers in the areas they conquered and intermarried with the many local ethnic groups which they encountered, creating a new Mossi society, composed of the descendants of the conquered and conquerors, in which many of the cultural elements of both peoples were preserved.
Ouagadougou style Mossi masks are related stylistically to the red, white, and fl zoomorphic masks used by the Nouna, Lela, Ko, and Kàssena, whom the Mossi call gurunsi and who are the southwestern neighbors of the Mossi.
Mossi cul tural history must be understood as an amalgamation of the Tengabisi agricul turalists and the Nakomsé cavalrymen, a process which began in the early fifteenth century.
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The four dimas and naabas are: Tenkodogo and Tenkodogo Naaba, Ouagadougou and Mogho Naaba, Yatenga and Yatenga Naaba, and Boussouma and Boussouma Naaba.
Naaba Zigri, former teacher and member of Parliament, states that the role of traditional chiefs, consist in settling disputes, protecting and guarding the cultural heritage of the Moosi.
The same idea is found in the pronouncement of Naaba Zigri who claims that the troubles of traditional rulers start with envy, jealousy and bitterness of those who, on the one hand, could not afford to don the grab and the red hats of chiefs amongst their fellows.
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 Burkinabe traditional states
The arrangements for interregna in these states are complicated, and in the absence of precise data are omitted.
1333 Mossi state previously styled Rawatenga and Gitti is
This cluster of states, with Nungu as the premier state, includes, in addition to the ones recorded here, Maajoari (style of ruler: naaga), Namuno, and Tambariga.
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 Burkinabe traditional polities
1333 Mossi state previously styled Rawatenga and Gitti is restyled Yatenga Rulers (title Yatenga naaba; rulers marked * have royal style rima) 1787 - 1803 Naaba Saaga* (b.
Note: This cluster of states, with Nungu as the premier state, includes, in addition to the ones recorded here, Maajoari (Buricimba dynasty; style of ruler: naaga), Namuno, and Tambariga (Buricimba dynasty).
- 1881 Labidiedo 1881 - 1883 Haminari 1883 - 1887 Yendabri 1887 - 1919 Yaaparigu 1919 Boagri 1919 - 1927 Hampandi 1927 - 1970 Banyikuba 1970 Wuribiari 1970 - Hamicuuri Bilayanga Rulers - Buricimba dynasty - 189.
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 Tenkodogo Monarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tenkodogo is a state in Burkina Faso,founded ca.1120.It is a senior state of the Mossi.It is ruled by a Naaba.
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 Rulers of the Mossi state of Tenkodogo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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