Prince Gassire rides in battle against his enemies, the Burdama.

Dausi is the name of a great complex of West African epic songs collected by the German ethnologist Leo Frobenius between 1899 and 1915. Unfortunately he did not record them in the original language, but he did realize that he had discovered that key section in the oral traditions of West Africa which linked the history of the Garamantes with the West African empire and city of Gana (Ghana), which flourished between the fourth and thirteenth centuries, and with, the present city of Ouagadougou (also spelled Wagadugu), the capital of contemporary Burkina Faso.

The history of the Garamantes begins with twin cities called Garama, one inhabited by men and the other by women. Once a year the men and the women came together for one night, after which most of the women would become pregnant.