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Saba senegalensis, known as weda in the Moore, French, and English languages and ‘’madd’’ in Wolof and ‘’laare’’ in Pulaar, is a fruit-producing plant of the Apocynaceae [1] family, native to the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. It has several common names in various West African languages.
The name Damba is in Dagbani. Other variations include Damma in Mampruli and Jingbenti in Waali. The festival is celebrated in the month of Damba, the third month of Dagomba calendar. The purpose of the festival is to celebrate the rich heritage, history and chieftaincy of Dagbon and related kingdoms. Dagbon is the birthplace of centralized ...
Damballa is said to be the sky father and the primordial creator of all life, or the first thing created by the Bondye.In those Vodou societies that view Damballa as the primordial creator, he created the cosmos by using his 7000 coils to form the stars and the planets in the heavens and to shape the hills and valleys on Earth.
Thus, Dagbon history has been passed down meticulously via oral tradition, with drummers as professional griots known as Lunsi. [45] According to oral tradition, the political history of Dagbon has its origin in the life story of a legend called Tohazie (translated as "red hunter"). [46] Dagombas practise both Islam and the Dagbon Traditional ...
This species can be found in several river basins in northwestern Madagascar. [7]This includes populations in far northern Madagascar that some have speculated represented an undescribed species, but a comparison of specimens did not support this, instead maintaining them as part of P. damii.
World Damba Festival is an enactment of the Damba festival of Northern Ghana by Ghanaians living in other parts of the world. World Damba festival was first celebrated in 1999 in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] [2] London hosted the event in 2012. Other cities that have hosted the festival include Boston in Massachusetts, Amsterdam, and Brussels. [3]
Byrsonima crassifolia is a slow-growing large shrub or tree to 10 metres (33 ft). Sometimes cultivated for its edible fruits, the tree is native and abundant in the wild, sometimes in extensive stands, in open pine forests and grassy savannas, from central Mexico, through Central America, to Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; it also occurs in Trinidad, Barbados, Curaçao, St. Martin ...
Syconia (fruit) of the plant Ficus dammaropsis Ficus dammaropsis , the Highland breadfruit , locally called kapiak in Tok Pisin , is a tropical dioecious [ 2 ] evergreen fig tree (subgenus Sycamorus, of the Mulberry Family ( Moraceae ) with huge pleated leaves 60 cm (24 in) across and up to 90 cm (3 ft) in length.