Twenty minutes on the place of the dead in Dagara practice.
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Writer and teacher of the Dagara tradition (1956–2021), born in Dano in Burkina Faso and taken at the age of four to be raised by Jesuit priests. He later studied in the West and spent most of his adult life teaching ritual and initiation in the United States and Europe.
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