Turka

Mia Sogoba 11 December 2018

Categories: Ethnicities

A Gur-speaking people, the Turka are an ethnic group that is only found in Burkina Faso.

Synonyms:

Tourka, Turuka

Joking Relationships

CulturesOfWestAfrica @CulturesWAfrica

5 days ago
Cascading Cowries / Cauris en cascade.

[Image: "African God" par le photographe ivoirien, O’kiins Howara https://t.co/lipyfwWS2Y] https://t.co/jxvPWxk6i1

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CulturesOfWestAfrica @CulturesWAfrica

2 weeks ago
#Ghana, through the eyes of her native son, the late Ghanaian photographer Emmanuel Bobbie, aka Bob Pixel. Rest forever in peace.

[Images: Adjobue Diamond Miner / Asogli Drummer / Accra Beauty https://t.co/DD1dtaKxEO] https://t.co/uy56WjPvxn https://t.co/JBWMlOFl7b

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CulturesOfWestAfrica @CulturesWAfrica

3 weeks ago
Vortex, ancestral spirit whirled into the land of the living.

[Image: Egungun. Ouidah, #Benin by Dan Kitwood https://t.co/DsIsiAlJcV] https://t.co/fIbFZGN7FR

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CulturesOfWestAfrica @CulturesWAfrica

4 weeks ago
Masques Wobé

[Image: Nabil Zorkot Photography. #CôtedIvoire https://t.co/II8SVmzSUh] https://t.co/R3XCo8GWCq

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CulturesOfWestAfrica @CulturesWAfrica

1 month ago
The paleo-lake deposits of Gobero trace back to a time when the Ténéré desert was verdant and wet, where Kiffian culture flourished on the dunes overlooking the fresh water of the Holocene Wet Phase (or Neolithic Subpluvial).

[Mike Hettwer Photography: https://t.co/ICyJApY7PU] https://t.co/ypZjojKHWg

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Mawli Dayak @MawliDayak
Dans le désert à 200 km d’Agadez, il y a 8 à 9 000 ans les Kiffians habitaient Gobero. Bijoux en dents d’hippopotames, poteries, sépultures tapissées de fleurs, attestent d’une civilisation qui vivaient dans un environnement aquatique #Niger 🇳🇪 @Didier_Dutheil @PaulCSereno https://t.co/YKsG1VB5Lz