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Gusabu-girl
Ramatu- mom
Zima-?
Secri- Chief of the spirit world
Gunda- Tillaberi’s oldest neighborhood tooru- spirit songhay- the people living mainly in niger and mail

Askia Mohammed Toure-greates king of songhay (1493-1528)

seven children lost to her husbands they speak songhay
1463-1591 society was based on principle of social inequality

Gusabu’s Mediums
The girl become sick spiritually goes through a spirit troupe to regain her health, then she marries several men that she ends up leaving thorough out all the marriage she had 7 kids. ( kids styes with their dad) her last husband dies and she never remarries and become a Zima a spiritual leader

Spirit mediums in songhay they believe carrying your child on you back is not a good thing because it doesn't lead to good relation between the mother and her child in the future social life is Precarious, The harvest is unpredictable
- it is not a equal society, there are rich and poor, decent from rural family live in large compounds together specially during the songhay empire from (1463-1591) society was divided up in to Nobles and

Mediumship and women women in Songhay is equated with slaves and children. women’s are seen as unvalued and not trustworthy. women don’t have any right. they can leave their husband but not divorce them. they don’t have any legal claim to their children after they are weaned. women are more contacted to the spirit world, men depend on women when they want to link to the spirit world.

according to Fatouma Seyni a Spirit medium in Mehanna:
Women gives men power with out them Mens would be powerless. Women clean their path pray to god for their husband and make sure spirits watches over them

The Consequences of mediumship
The relation of a medium and its spirit is childlike. The spirit needs to be carried and taken care of, The spirit can also be dangerous because spirit causes illness or death

Mariama kadidja=mother
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