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Encyclopedia > Lobi

The Lobi are an ethnic group that originated in what is today Ghana. Starting around 1770 many of the Lobi migrated into Burkina Faso and later into Côte d'Ivoire. Currently the group consists of around 160,000 people. Lobi is also the name of the language spoken by the Lobi people.


External link

  • Lobi information from University of Iowa (http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Lobi.html)

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Lobi People (446 words)
Lobi villages are spread out and often intermingle with one another.
It is believed by the Lobi that at one time they lived in a metaphorical Garden of Eden at one with the god and wanting for nothing.
The Lobi are able freely to distinguish between the bush spirits and the thila based on a series of factors, which at first seem quite confusing to the outsider.
Art Africain - African Art / Arts Africains - African Arts : Loby Statuary (5850 words)
The importance of male property is further emphasized by the Lobi practice of "virilocal" residence, in which a wife goes to live in her husband's house upon marriage.
Finally, each Lobi also belongs to a village space (dil) and therefore to a community attached to the same land whose surface is under the protection of a spiritual presence venerated by all its occupants, even if they belong to different lineages.
The Lobi sculptor, however, is in the heart of the battle that men fight against the occult and for which he is carving wood.
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