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BISSA BISSAM BAA KAMAJI.

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF BISSAS. The history of Bissa deal with the story of The Origin, political, economy and social organisation and culture of our Bissas people. the story also discusses how our people assumed the name Bissa and we shall discover the sources from which the history of the Bissa people can be written from earlier time to the president day.

THE NAME BISSA. Our Bissa people has not always had the name Bissa before 1370, it was call Mande. this was a name given to our Bissa people in the Mande land known as (Mali). the word Bissa mean river it is the plural of Bissano which mean the people of the river. the term Bissa is a Mande ethnic group who settled along the white volta at Tankodogu at Burkina Faso earlier at the 11 century. that was exactly the name Mande changed to Bissa as used today, an alternative name for the business is this alternative name for the Bissa is Busanga or Busansi which is uses by the Mossi people.

THE SOURCES OF BISSA HISTORY. the history of the Bissa people is about the lives of the Bissa people and how they have become what they are today. through the Bissa history will we learned about the town of peace and the time of war and our brave heroes and gentle Farmers, traders and hunters who helped to build our Bissa kingdom as we know it today.

NOTE. Indeed in the absence of writing the Bissas society developed a formal oral method of maintaining these records for their posterity. this clearly indicate that the Bissa people had history before the art of writing. Broadly speaking sources of Bissa history may be divided into two categories.

THE TWO CATEGORIES OF BISSA HISTORY

(*)NON DOCUMENTARY OR WRITTEN SOURCES OF BISSA HISTORY. (*) DOCUMENTARY OR WRITING SOURCES OF BISSA HISTORY. Our knowledge about the Bissa history is basically from non-documentary sources the documentary sources included linguistic oral tradition archaeologist ethnographic etc. (*) LINGUISTIC. this review the various language spoken by the Bissa people. It's the similarities as well as the closer relations that exist among them. for example the Barka and Lebir dialect si similar to the Lere. (*) ETHNOGRAPHY. This involves the study of Bissas Present day social institution like Bissa chieftaincy, craft and artistic skills the Bissas as they have a evolved. This also provided another important source of the studies of Bissas history.this is the studies of materials remains of Bissa man activity in the past. (*) ORAL TRADITION. Oral tradition our are Bissas stories of the past legends and customs that are handed over from one generation to another usually by the word of mouth.
 * ARCHAEOLOGY.