Dala

Summary

Dala is a southern Chadian dance rhythm and a basis for modern guitar-led popular music. Ingamadji Mujos identifies it explicitly as a southern dance that he adapted to guitar. Its documented musical geography connects the Logone landscape with Chadian urban and migrant networks.

Contemporary and trending

The accessible practitioner testimony documents a continuing process of adaptation rather than a tradition sealed off from popular production. Nderguet's discussion of Tibesti locates Dala within that group's southern materials. These accounts establish a creative repertoire, although they do not provide a current listening survey or a complete inventory of today's Dala groups.

History

Mujos recalls learning guitar in Sarh and later developing his own production arrangements in France. His account places a decisive stage of his Dala project in the mid-1990s. This is the history of one influential modern interpretation, not a claim that he invented the underlying dance. His distinction between inherited material and a new public presentation is essential to understanding the style.

Musical characteristics

Dala's modern identity links a dance-derived rhythmic foundation to guitar accompaniment and composed song. The important change is an arrangement practice: local material is made workable within a contemporary song and ensemble setting. The sources do not justify treating every southern Chadian guitar song as Dala or prescribing a single immutable ensemble.

Geography and communities

The primary field covers the Logone and the Moundou–Sarh-connected southern musical landscape. A separate lighter N'Djamena field represents the capital's performance and media connections. The modern musician's residence abroad is significant biographically, but is insufficient evidence for a broad European listening mushroom. The map therefore emphasizes the Chadian repertoire and its documented urban route.

Rongondo is associated in Chadian musician testimony and biography with Saint Mbété Bao and his performing group. It is useful context for the named styles and individual innovations circulating around southern Chadian music. The evidence consulted does not establish a separately distributed, shared regional genre, so Rongondo is explained here without assigning it an independent geographic field.

Artists

Ingamadji Mujos supplies unusually valuable first-person evidence about the decision to bring Dala into modern guitar song. Nderguet's account identifies related work in the Ikun/Tibesti network. Their testimony should be read as situated accounts of creative decisions, rather than a universal account of every local performance.

Representative performances

MuGlobe listening profile

Repertoire	Field use	Notes
popular	regional	Comprehensive catalogue; recent discovery is prioritized and worthwhile older music remains playable. Preserve specific recording contexts and dates.

MuGlobe representative performances

Artist	Performance / song / title	Embedded player URL	Notes	Repertoire kind	Repertoire date	Recording date	Format	Opening	Places	Fit	Evidence	Review note	MuGlobe favorite	Current hit	Authentic
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Dala	https://www.youtube.com/embed/g8s3UhrfnPY	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording. Video publication: 2023-11-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Adama	https://www.youtube.com/embed/w8jFYkwYrkU	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording. Video publication: 2023-11-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	M.C (Marie-Claire)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/5uHxRyVRRsY	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording. Video publication: 2023-11-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Binon	https://www.youtube.com/embed/13XU8CxHuMk	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording. Video publication: 2023-11-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI MUJOS - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Distributor release: 2023-11-19; reissue date does not establish original recording.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	KOLEDJE (live Poitiers)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/jxuOwr2UbfQ	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source explicitly identifies separate live Poitiers Mbaoudje,Koledje,Forcat renditions. Actual stage versions distinguished from studio records; video upload is not invented concert date. Video publication: 2022-09-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source explicitly identifies separate live Poitiers Mbaoudje,Koledje,Forcat renditions. Actual stage versions distinguished from studio records; video upload is not invented concert date.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	MBAOUDJE (live Poitiers)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/9MfXveFB60w	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source explicitly identifies separate live Poitiers Mbaoudje,Koledje,Forcat renditions. Actual stage versions distinguished from studio records; video upload is not invented concert date. Video publication: 2022-08-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source explicitly identifies separate live Poitiers Mbaoudje,Koledje,Forcat renditions. Actual stage versions distinguished from studio records; video upload is not invented concert date.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	DALA live	https://www.youtube.com/embed/DWjDmME_b_s	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific artist-owned performances explicitly identified as Dala in New York and Poitiers. Separate stages/takes, not foreign venue changed to American/French repertoire. Video publication: 2022-08-04; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific artist-owned performances explicitly identified as Dala in New York and Poitiers. Separate stages/takes, not foreign venue changed to American/French repertoire.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	INTAR AFRIKA (Réveille-toi mon Afrique) - Ingamadji Mujos	https://www.youtube.com/embed/68bSteM6jPE	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Video publication: 2022-01-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	INGAMADJI Mujos Némo - MAREBI [ clip officiel]	https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Xorg93QnqY	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala. Video publication: 2021-12-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Forçat (live Poitiers)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/cnEtEoS3UQI	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source explicitly identifies separate live Poitiers Mbaoudje,Koledje,Forcat renditions. Actual stage versions distinguished from studio records; video upload is not invented concert date. Video publication: 2020-11-30; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source explicitly identifies separate live Poitiers Mbaoudje,Koledje,Forcat renditions. Actual stage versions distinguished from studio records; video upload is not invented concert date.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Mujos Ingamadji - BINON [clip officiel]	https://www.youtube.com/embed/nepwE6A4mLQ	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Video publication: 2020-02-08; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	MARIE-LOUISE (lyrics) - Ingamadji Mujos Némo	https://www.youtube.com/embed/FkXAYGHV4Xo	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Video publication: 2019-09-22; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo; Toingar Keyba Natar	Bbé g leou	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z7318w1bnTI	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source explicitly credits actual duet paying tribute to Doumi Thomas. Honored earlier musician is not miscredited as a newly recorded voice. Video publication: 2019-08-02; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source explicitly credits actual duet paying tribute to Doumi Thomas. Honored earlier musician is not miscredited as a newly recorded voice.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	INGAMADJI MUJOS NEMO - Prudence alcool	https://www.youtube.com/embed/4G4CDVTqvsE	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Flash235 Chad. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala. Video publication: 2018-08-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Flash235 Chad. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Le Dala s'invite à New York	https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Q6sk9ef1Iw	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific artist-owned performances explicitly identified as Dala in New York and Poitiers. Separate stages/takes, not foreign venue changed to American/French repertoire. Video publication: 2018-03-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific artist-owned performances explicitly identified as Dala in New York and Poitiers. Separate stages/takes, not foreign venue changed to American/French repertoire.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	VIRGINIE	https://www.youtube.com/embed/_2VrJzerwqw	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes. Video publication: 2017-10-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Binon,Dala,Marie-Louise,Adama,M.C.,Virginie and Intar Afrika works in the artist’s documented Dala project/album history. Primary first-person interview ties Binon/Virginie and Offensive Dala to this guitar adaptation. Later uploads/reissues do not establish new originals; specific studio Binon arrangements are retained separately from documented live takes.	false	false	false
Ballet National du Tchad	Danse dala	https://www.youtube.com/embed/bNizyabxSFQ	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source names Ballet National on the specifically titled Danse Dala musical/dance rendition. A traditional performance, not any unrelated national ballet programme. Video publication: 2017-04-02; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary source names Ballet National on the specifically titled Danse Dala musical/dance rendition. A traditional performance, not any unrelated national ballet programme.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Binon acoustique - FR3 Lille 1994	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vk9dEvkV7II	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source identifies Binon acoustic for FR3 Lille/Fest’Africa1994, a distinct historical performance, not a new2017 song. Documented performance/session: 1994. Video publication: 2017-02-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	1994	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source identifies Binon acoustic for FR3 Lille/Fest’Africa1994, a distinct historical performance, not a new2017 song. Documented performance/session: 1994.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Binon	https://www.youtube.com/embed/PeaonRd_ad4	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source explicitly calls this extended Binon rendition Dala, naming collaborating Caien Madoka,Leny Bidens,Felix M’Bainayel,Tonton Ben,Sesky Kubweki,Toma Sidibe. Named participants retained as context, not all assumed lead vocalists. Carlos Barbosa is image credit. Video publication: 2016-12-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source explicitly calls this extended Binon rendition Dala, naming collaborating Caien Madoka,Leny Bidens,Felix M’Bainayel,Tonton Ben,Sesky Kubweki,Toma Sidibe. Named participants retained as context, not all assumed lead vocalists. Carlos Barbosa is image credit.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	KOLEDJE	https://www.youtube.com/embed/6SQUhZsEonw	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala. Video publication: 2016-12-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	MENDA A TOLI	https://www.youtube.com/embed/A1jkWnRaCfw	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala. Video publication: 2016-12-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	Mbaoudjé	https://www.youtube.com/embed/nVF4py_MRiU	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala. Video publication: 2016-10-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Mbaoudje,Koledje,Menda a Toli,Marebi and Prudence Alcool modern Chadian guitar-song works within the artist’s Dala programme. Primary source provides work-specific lyrics/social context where available; no claim that every Chadian guitar song is Dala.	false	false	false
Southern Chadian Dala singers and percussionists, personal names uncredited	Dala	https://www.youtube.com/embed/6QaIA6O9Q8k	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Source explicitly identifies actual southern Chadian Dala dance performance; uploader Mujos is not automatically every voice in this community ensemble. Video publication: 2016-09-17; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Source explicitly identifies actual southern Chadian Dala dance performance; uploader Mujos is not automatically every voice in this community ensemble.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	MATINODJI - Ingamadji Mujos Némo	https://www.youtube.com/embed/lG_P-WDmGXw	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Matinodji musical work, primary artist dedicates to late mother and explains Ngambaye exile/family address. Matched287-second television duplicate held; short promotional excerpt not counted again. Video publication: 2016-08-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific Matinodji musical work, primary artist dedicates to late mother and explains Ngambaye exile/family address. Matched287-second television duplicate held; short promotional excerpt not counted again.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo; Gombo Salsa	Ingamadji Mujos Némo - le Pape du Dala en live	https://www.youtube.com/embed/qki8Vv5PBCs	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source explicitly identifies Binon live at Centre Culturel Français N’Djamena18November2000 with Gombo Salsa. Distinct actual concert take from studio versions. Documented performance/session: 2000-11-18. Video publication: 2016-01-31; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	2000-11-18	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own source explicitly identifies Binon live at Centre Culturel Français N’Djamena18November2000 with Gombo Salsa. Distinct actual concert take from studio versions. Documented performance/session: 2000-11-18.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	MUJOS BINON Live Couleurs tropicales TMTV 2015	https://www.youtube.com/embed/AMmL7DgIBlE	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: TCHAD MUST TV. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Tchad Must TV identifies Binon live Couleurs Tropicales2015, distinct musical broadcast take. Older performance remains eligible. Documented performance/session: 2015. Video publication: 2015-09-30; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	2015	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: TCHAD MUST TV. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Tchad Must TV identifies Binon live Couleurs Tropicales2015, distinct musical broadcast take. Older performance remains eligible. Documented performance/session: 2015.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo	YAYA officiel	https://www.youtube.com/embed/J4zYB8mBgFM	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own original official Yaya song describing Lake Lere/manatee conservation. Same276-second2022 repost held, not counted as another master. Video publication: 2014-09-30; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: Mujos INGAMADJI. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own original official Yaya song describing Lake Lere/manatee conservation. Same276-second2022 repost held, not counted as another master.	false	false	false
Ingamadji Mujos Némo and companions	INGAMADJI Mujos et ses Compagnons - Concert à Péronne 2011	https://www.youtube.com/embed/0yPY5McBorY	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI Mujos Nemo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own artist source documents musical concert at Espace Mac Orlan Peronne21May2011; unknown exact song title retained honestly. Foreign stage does not make this French national repertoire. Documented performance/session: 2011-05-21. Video publication: 2012-01-08; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 22 October 2026.	popular	unknown	2011-05-21	live	unknown	country:Chad	supported	Recording/context source Recording/context source	Reviewed Dala musical recording. Source: INGAMADJI Mujos Nemo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Own artist source documents musical concert at Espace Mac Orlan Peronne21May2011; unknown exact song title retained honestly. Foreign stage does not make this French national repertoire. Documented performance/session: 2011-05-21.	false	false	false

Related genres

Saï and Dala are closely connected in accounts of southern Chadian band music. Maintaining separate entries makes the named Logone dance source visible while allowing the broader Saï identity to remain distinct. Congolese rumba and other circulating styles form part of the surrounding popular-music environment, not replacements for the local name.

Hotspot mushrooms

Logone is a coherent musical heartland with connections east toward Sarh; the capital is circulation, not the origin or an equal nationwide plateau.

The fields express editorial judgments about relative musical affinity and reach, not measured audience shares. Radius is the zero edge of a linear fade; same-genre overlaps combine by maximum.

MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms

ID	Location	Latitude	Longitude	Radius (km)	Strength	Notes
dala-logone	Logone and connected southern Chadian Dala	8.8	16.4	440.0	0.7	Southern dance and modern guitar repertoire.
dala-ndjamena	N’Djamena Dala circulation	12.12	15.08	250.0	0.36	Documented urban performance and national mediation.