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"The Bobo are an inherently decentralized people. [...] The concept of placing political power in the hands of an individual is foreign to the bobo, whose cosmologic views would be seriously questioned by the existence of such an order.

The creator god of the Bobo is Wuro, who is never physically represented and cannot be described in words. Wuro is responsible for the ordering of all things in the world into pairs, which must always remain balanced. However, man, through his everyday existence, is likely to upset this balance. Thus, the Bobo religious system involves restoring order through a series of offerings. The main god responsible for communication between man and Wuro is Dwo, who is physically revealed through the extensive masking traditions of the Bobo"