Meeting the dossos
The dossos offer:
• entertainment• sorcery rituals
• mercenary services
What attracted you to the service:
Fame of Burkinabe’ sorcery
Here it’s the story:
I communicate my will to meet some
magician to my local network
Local people tell me that I can’t contact the service provider directly, but they will try to work as
intermediaries
After one month, none of the
“intermediaries” seem to be able or willing to let me
meet the sorcerers, in the meanwhile
they keep telling me stories that raise my curiosity and
eagerness.
One day, during the independence day, I zip around on the moped with Olle’.
We end up in a “bar” where artists and “unconventional
people” happen to meet
By chance the Dossos are there playing some music. Olle’ exclaims: “wow...
the Dossos! They are really cool!!!”.
I don’t know anything about the Dossos, I assume
they are musicians.
Olle’ introduce me to them. They start singing and
dancing at literally 20 cm from my face looking right into my eyes. The song is customized for me, Olle’ does the translation in real
time.
Olle’ suggest me to drop some coins into their instruments,
that’s how I pay for the entertainment
service. Price is up to me.
Only at this point they reveal to me that I’ve been
blessed (sorcery service) And if I want they can give me an amulet also.
I ask for the price. They tell me a price. It’s not negotiable (thank
god).
The older member of the group take his
moped and leaves. He has to prepare the
amulet for me.
He comes back 30 minutes later with 6-8 rings
of different size covered with a
black greasy, magic potion.
I can pick the one that fits me. It will serve as protection.
There are some rules though: no
more eating unborn animals.
I have to do a ritual and repeat some magic words.
The older guy has a good opinion of me, so he decides to
introduce me their other service.
He shows me some pictures of him with
the president of Gambia.
He shows me images of him with the
head of an hippo he killed
He shows me images of people they killed in Ivory
Coast
They can do mercenary services too, but I’m not too interested of becoming a client. So they drop that proposal and we
go back to music-entertainment.
What’s cool:
• you don’t know who they are and what they do, when you find out it’s too
late.
What’s cool:
• the way you approach them (through other
customers)
What’s cool:
• the custom made service
What’s cool:
• the uniqueness of the experience
What’s NOT cool:
• the experience might be a bit
extreme