This is the dance of hunters of Mole Dagombas which covers
entirely the whole North. The history of this day dance can be traced back to
the event of Tohazie (red hunter). Whiles he was on a hunting expedition,
Tohazie came across a village and was received by a woman. After the reception,
the woman told him that they could provide him with everything except water. He
Tohazie asked what was wrong. The woman narrated that their river was taken
over by a bull. He asked what the men of the town had done about it. The woman
continued that the bull had killed a lot of the women who went to fetch the
water from the river and had killed all the young men who tried killing it.
The story narrates
that at the beginning he was about living the village then he thought to
himself “if I leave without doing something who else will rescue this people
from this bull?” When this thought
occurred to him he decided to try killing the bull. He stayed in the village
for two days and very early the next day he went down the river to single
handedly face the bull. The bull saw him and rushed into him with an effort to
kill him. He struggled with the animal for a long time and he had to use a
whole lot of hunting experience and other super powers he had. Historians have
a lot on his encounter with the bull. But the most important about it was the
fact that he finally killed the bull.cont. reading
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