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The Dagara tribe of West Central Africa successfully categorize their people into five different categories: fire, water, mineral, earth and nature.

These are shown above on the African Wheel with the colors the Dagara normally associate with each type.

Each of the five types of people play a very specific role.

Every person born into this world comes from one of these categories in order to help fulfill the kind of function that that category of people is supposed to fulfill in order to keep the community together.