The document summarizes a chance encounter with the Dossos, a group that offers entertainment, sorcery rituals, and mercenary services. The narrator is introduced to the Dossos by a friend and experiences a customized song and dance. They reveal they have provided a sorcery blessing and offer an amulet. The older member shows pictures implying involvement in violence, though they drop the topic at the narrator's lack of interest in mercenary services. The summary highlights the uniqueness and potentially extreme nature of the encounter.

1. Meeting the
dossos

2. The dossos offer:
• entertainment
• sorcery rituals
• mercenary services

3. What attracted you to the
service:
Fame of Burkinabe’ sorcery

4. Here it’s the story:

5. I communicate my
will to meet some
magician to my local
network

6. Local people tell me
that I can’t contact
the service provider
directly, but they
will try to work as
intermediaries

7. 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.

8. One day, during the
independence day, I
zip around on the
moped with Olle’.

9. We end up in a “bar”
where artists and
“unconventional
people” happen to
meet

10. By chance the Dossos
are there playing
some music. Olle’
exclaims: “wow...
the Dossos! They are
really cool!!!”.

11. I don’t know
anything about the
Dossos, I assume
they are musicians.

12. 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.

13. Olle’ suggest me to
drop some coins into
their instruments,
that’s how I pay for
the entertainment
service. Price is up
to me.

14. 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).

15. The older member of
the group take his
moped and leaves. He
has to prepare the
amulet for me.

16. He comes back 30
minutes later
with 6-8 rings
of different size
covered with a
black greasy, magic
potion.

17. I can pick the one
that fits me. It will
serve as protection.
There are some
rules though: no
more eating unborn
animals.

18. I have to do a
ritual and repeat
some magic words.

19. I pay.
Again.

20. The older guy has a
good opinion of me,
so he decides to
introduce me their
other service.

21. He shows me some
pictures of him with
the president of
Gambia.

22. He shows me images
of him with the
head of an hippo he
killed

23. He shows me images
of people they
killed in Ivory
Coast

24. 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.

25. What’s cool:
• you don’t know who
they are and what
they do, when you
find out it’s too
late.

26. What’s cool:
• the way you
approach them
(through other
customers)

27. What’s cool:
• the custom made
service

28. What’s cool:
• the uniqueness of
the experience

29. What’s NOT cool:
• the experience
might be a bit
extreme