Mossi

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The Mossi are a Voltaic-speaking people located mostly in the West African county of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). Most Mossi live in extended families and earn their living cultivating millet and sorghum. Many also augment their income by participating in local market trading and wage labor. The Mossi are historically noted for their empire which lasted for at least five centuries until conquest by the French at the end of the nineteenth century.

Identifier

Region

• Africa

Subregion

• Western Africa

Subsistence Type

• intensive agriculturalists

Samples

• EA

Countries

• Burkina Faso

External Links

• Mossi (Yatenga) (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Mossi (Ouagadougou) (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE