Dagaare (people)

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The Dagaare , Dagaaba or Dagari, Dagara, Dogaari, Dagati, Degati are a West African ethnic group in the northwest of Ghana and in the adjacent areas of the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso . They can be divided into three ethnic groups: The southern Dagaare or Dagaare-Süd live in Ghana (700,000 to 1,100,000 members in 2003), the Dagaare Dioula or Dagaari Dioula (around 21,000) and the northern Dagaare or Dagara live in Burkina Faso -North(about 390,000 members). All three groups put together, 1,100,000 to 1,500,000 people belong to the Dagaare family, they all speak the same language Dagaare .

The Dagaare are known for their ceremonial funerals, where several musicians play together for a few hours on the gyil , a spar xylophone reinforced with calabashes . The musicians and musical instrument lenders are traditionally paid with cowrie snail money, which is also used to pay a bride price and for other cultic and medical purposes (see cowry money with the Dagaare ).

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literature

  • Adams Bodomo, Manolete Mora: Documenting Spoken and Sung Texts of the Dagaaba of West Africa. In: Empirical Musicology Review. Volume 2, No. 3, 2007, pp. 81-102 (English; PDF file; 1.6 MB; 22 pages on kb.osu.edu).
  • Emmanuel Yiridoe: Economic and Sociocultural Aspects of Cowrie Currency of the Dagaaba of Northwestern Ghana Aspects. In: Nordic Journal of African Studies. Volume 4, No. 2, 1995, pp. 17–32 (English; PDF file; 161 kB; 16 pages on njas.helsinki.fi).

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