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The douga, or the "dance of the vultures", is a ceremonial dance (and song) among the Mandinka people (part of the Mandé people) who live in West-Africa.According to religious scholar Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, its relevance operates on three levels. It is "performed only occasionally at great events, [and] marks the religious revival of this Guinean community; "it shows the dominion of human knowledge, creative skills, and wisdom over matter and bestial instinct", and it "demonstrates ... the promise of resurrection of the dead to life". According to Christopher Miller, it reflects "the hierarchical, casted order of traditional Mande society", and in essence forms a chain going back to the emperor Sundiata Keita.There is, however, some doubt about to which extent the douga "belongs" to the Mandinka or even the Mandé more generally. Uzo Esonwanne casts doubt on Frantz Fanon's claim that Keïta's African Dawn assigns a kind of ownership to the Mandé, or Christopher Miller's assumption that it belonged to a Mandé elite.

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