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Mossi (Mosse): people of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana

Mossi or Moaga (Mosse in plural) are a people of Burkina Faso (International Trade and Business in West Africa)

Mogho Naba (King of the Mossi), Source: AFP

1. Mossi represent 40% of the population of Burkina Faso (6.2 million Burkinabe)
2. King of the Mossi: Mogho Naba
3. Ouédraogo is the ancestor of all Mossi (children of the Princess of the Kingdom Dagomba Yennenga)
4. Diaspora in West Africa
   1. Ivory Coast: 1,200,000 Mossi
   2. Ghana: 160.140 Mossi
   3. Mali
5. Language of Mossi: Mooré (Voltaic group)
   1. 5 million people speak Mooré
   2. Mooré has Status of national Burkinabe language
   3. Yeela: welcome
   4. ¿Yîis kibare?: How are you?
6. Religion
   1. Islam: 65%. Mossi converted to Islam during Colonization
   2. Christianity (15%) (Catholicism and Protestantism)
   3. African Traditional Religions (religion of Mossi): 20%
7. Kingdoms Mossi (15th century, until French colonization - 1897)
   1. Kingdom of Yatenga (Ouahigouya)
   2. Kingdom of Ouagadougou
   3. Relations with the other empires of West Africa:
      1. Ghana Empire
      2. Mali Empire
      3. Songhai Empire
      4. Kingdom Bambara of Ségou
      5. Empire Fula of Macina

“If we help a woman to cultivate her field, she can say, when time comes that the barn is his” Mossi Proverb

More information: International Trade and Business in Burkina Faso, at EENI Global Business School Website.

1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
2. Doctorate in African Business

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