BARIBA, a well-proportioned, long-headed people located in northern Dahomey (Parakou, Nikki, Kandi and the Atakora district of southern upper Volta). Their language is related to Kabre. They are independent and warlike, are cultivators and cattle-raisers, employing Fulani herdsmen. They live in extended family groups in walled villages, subject to a paramount chief.
See Delafosse, Haut Senegal Niger (1912) .