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Chapter I-18:  Baamaaya, Jɛra, Yori, Bila and Other Dances of Dagbon

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Baamaaya; Jɛra; Yori; Bila; Nyindɔɣu and Dimbu; Gingaani; dances of the craft-guilds and other tribes; group dances compared to individual dances



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Jɛra


Baamaaya


Baamaaya 2


Tuubaaŋkpilli


Nyaɣboli




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Contents outline and links by paragraph  

Ways to classify Dagbamba dances

Baamaaya

Jɛra

Yori

Bila

Other dances

Comparing the dances

Drummers' knowledge of dances

Conclusion



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Proverbs and Sayings

Turn and knock an old person [a young person] on the head, kpai!  It doesn't matter.

It is when there is no sleep that there is a mosquito.

If the fisherman is wicked, then how much more the seine that catches the fish?

The one who is close to the chief eats kantɔŋ soup.

The chief called his wife and she didn't come; she has flat buttocks.

The one who has strength is the one with the truth.

Who likes the tax collector?

A poor man has no friend.

If a river dries up, it is only God who will be ashamed.

If somebody is not in the house and his thing is going to spoil, the one who fears God will make it well.

Any good thing will not lack somebody to buy it.

If you don't see something, and you say you believe it, then how do you believe it?

As for knowledge, everyone cuts the extent he can.

If you are able to get a little knowledge, and that is what you can carry, then you have to hold it well, and it will be solving your problems.  What you are holding, somebody is also somewhere looking for it, and he hasn't got it.

Our learning is also from our hearts, that our hearts can catch many talks.


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