MOLE DAGOMBAS (THE GREAT WARRIORS)

Takai takai dance Takai is one of the oldest drum rhythms of the Dagomba, and the story tells of how they came to be so close to the ...

THE TORA DANCE Tora is a game-like dance in which two dancers knock their buttocks together in time to the cadence moment in the drummi...

   JERA DANCE jera dance Jera is a potent dance.  As with most dances in the North, the history of Jera is deep, obscure and myster...

BAAMAYA DANCE Like Tora and Takai, Baamaaya has several sections, each with its own name, musical phrases, and dance movements. Be...

  SELECTION OF A YA NAA Ya Naa Mahama III : The selection of the Ya Naa, until the early 1950s, was the responsibility of the traditi...

REGENT OF DAGBON One of the major and most conspicuous features of Dagomba society is chieftaincy. There has been a line of par...

THE GOONJI MUSIC   Apart from drumming, there are many other types of music in Dagbon.  There are other types of drums played by ...