Losso

The Losso are a village of farmers and breeders of goats and wool in addition to domestic animals. They mainly grow sorghum and millet. They live in northern Togo, in the Kara region, a region rich in palm palms of palm oil, although they are widely spread throughout the country and by neighbouring countries. They are, apparently, descendants of the Mossi of Burkina Faso and the first inhabitants would settle in the century XVAccording to the traditional primordial couple LossoOr Nawbda as they are called, under the sky directly loaded with bows and arrows the husband and with the necessary tools for the work of the fields and domestic labors. They practice just like the Ewe The abundant birth of twins has caused rites to emerge when one of them died, which over time has given rise to a whole cult. One of his most important cults is the cult of ancestors, the Alua. According to one legend, all men before birth were part of the spiritual world of the Alua. One day they realized that they were raising altars and worshiping a foreign Alua and then jealously asked the humans to also consecrate altars to them and to make small statues that they would invest to be the object of worship. This seems to be the origin of the fairly sufficient statuettes that have been elaborated throughout the times. Their statuary is aesthetically very elementary. They have a great affinity with the Lamba and the Kabyé, whose artistic-religious productions are often the object of confusion and of very difficult differentiation.