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The Songhai people have traditionally been a socially stratified society, like many West African ethnic groups, with castes. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] According to the medieval and colonial era descriptions, their vocation is hereditary, and each stratified group has been endogamous . [ 76 ]
The Songhai proper have traditionally been a socially stratified society, like many West African ethnic groups with castes. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] According to the medieval and colonial era descriptions, their vocation is hereditary, and each stratified group has been endogamous. [ 20 ]
The Zā dynasty (also rendered Dya, Zuwā, Zu’a, Juwā, Jā’, Yā, Diā, and Diu’a, sometimes equated with the Zaghe) were rulers of the Gao Empire based in the towns of Kukiya and Gao on the Niger River in what is today modern Mali; and rulers of the Songhai Empire through Sunni Ali, son of Za Yasibaya (Yasiboi), who established the Sonni Dynasty.
According to the French anthropologist and filmmaker, Jean Rouch, who carried out fieldwork and documented the Songhai populations of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, the Sohance are the true Songhai due to the minimal foreign cultural influences found among them, as opposed to other regions where outside influences were more prevalent.
The Songhai (also Songhay, Songhaytarey (, [soŋhajtaraj])) is an area in the northwestern corner of Niger's Tillabéri Region populated mainly by the Songhaiborai. [1] It is considered the heartland of the Songhai people and the sanctuary of their ancient pantheon and priestly class and the place in which the original lineage of the Sonni dynasty retreated after the coup d'etat of 1493 ...
These two ethnic groups, the Songhai and the Tyenga, mixed to form a new distinct ethnic group, the Dendi people. They speak the Dendi Songhai dialect. Like Birni-N'Konni and Dogondoutchi, Dendi was a center of the Bori obsession cult, which almost completely disappeared as a result of Islamization by the mid-1950s. Merchants who moved from ...
Jeanne and Gideon are the parents of Blaze Bernstein. On Jan. 2, 2018, then-19-year-old Blaze left his house. Sometime later that night, he was murdered in Borrego Park, stabbed 28 times; his body ...
The Dendi are an ethnic group located in Benin, Niger, Nigeria and northern Togo mainly in the plains of the Niger River. They are part of the Songhai people. Derived from the Songhay language, the term "Dendi" translates to "down the river." The community consists of 195,633 people. Among them, only 4,505 live in Nigeria.