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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.

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Economic change and Mossi acculturation

Mossi joking

Essay on the manners and customs of the Mossi people in the western Sudan

The Mossi of the Upper Volta

Trade and market among the Mossi people

African urban life: the transformation of Ouagadougou

Christianity and Islam among the Mossi

Traditional and modern patterns of succession to political office among the Mossi of the Voltaic Republic

The black population of the Sudan, Mossi and Gourounsi country, documents and analyses

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