BOBO, an agricultural and pastoral, animistic people, divided into several tribes and speaking two different languages, living in the Upper Volta and in the valley of the Upper Black Volta, in the French Sudan. There is no tribal organization. Inheritance passes first to the brother and then to the son of the deceased.
See Cheron, "Les Bobo Fing," Annuaire du Comite d'Etudes Hist. et Scient. d'Afrique Occidentale (Goree, 1916) ; Cremer, Les Bobo