Bobo people

In much of the literature on African art, the group that lives in the area of Bobo-Dioulasso is called Bobo-Fing, literally "black Bobo".

The major Bobo community in the south is Bobo-Dioulasso, the second-largest city of Burkina Faso and the old French colonial capital.

The Bobo are the descendants of an ancient aggregation who assembled around a number of core clans, none which preserved any oral traditions of immigration into the area.

Agricultural activity is not merely a way of providing for subsistence among the Bobo, it is the essential component of their day-to-day existence.

The major food crops are red sorghum, pearl millet, yams, and maize.

The imposition of colonial rule and the construction of these mills led to the disintegration of the local co-operative labor systems, which had served to bond the members of Bobo society together.

Farming, for instance, can unbalance the precarious equilibrium between culture/nature and village/bush when the crops are gathered in the bush and brought into the village.