- Bassari people - Wikipedia
To the Bassari male adulthood is defined by entrance into the Bassari sect of the Kore initiation society, which in turn has three distinct levels of adulthood, each lasts six years and has its own initiation process
- Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
The Bassari, Fula and Bedik peoples settled from the 11th to the 19th centuries and developed specific cultures and habitats symbiotic with their surrounding natural environment The Bassari landscape is marked by terraces and rice paddies, interspersed with villages, hamlets and archaeological sites
- AFRICA | 101 Last Tribes - Bassari people
Bassari people speaks a Tenda language known as Oniyan (Onian, Onëyan, Ayan, Biyan, Wo) It is a Senegambian language which belongs to the larger Niger-Congo language group
- Keepers of the Earth: the Bassari – Indigenous Communities in . . .
The Bassari of Senegal, a community of some of the most warm and loving people that you will find anywhere, are trying to preserve dozens of fonio and millet varieties for future generations
- Bassari Country: UNESCO World Heritage Site Travel Guide
A mix of Bassari, Fula and Bedik peoples live in agricultural villages that were settled by several waves of migrations from the 11th-13th century on The villages are located in a hilly, difficult-to-access landscape
- Bassari in Guinea-Bissau Profile - joshuaproject. net
The Bassari people circumcise the males and sometimes the females These practices are part of initiation ceremonies at puberty and typically involve a period of instruction in an isolated "bush school " They tolerate premarital sexual freedom for girls and prefer cousins as marriage partners
- Africa Online Museum
Living as hunters and agriculturalists, the Bassari inhabit the northwest foothills of Fouta Djalon in southern Senegal, straddling the border of Senegal and Guinea
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