Gonja people information

also refer to the people of this kingdom. The Gonja are a Guan people who have been influenced by Dagbon, Akan, Mande and Hausa people. With the fall of...

who speak Gikyode,Krachi people, language-Kaakye people Nkonya tribe, the Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Akposo, Nawuri,Nyagbo and Ntsumburu. The Guan are believed...

Gonja may refer to: Gonja people Gonja language Ranjan Ramanayake East Gonja District North East Gonja District West Gonja District This disambiguation...

Region of Ghana and Wa. "Gonja" comes from "Kada Goro-Jaa" in Hausa, signifying "land of Red Cola." Ghana has over 285,000 Gonja people. This chart reflects...

The Gonja language, properly called Ngbanya or Ngbanyito, is a North Guang language spoken by an estimated 230,000 people, almost all of whom are of the...

nature and fought a couple of battles including the ones they helped the Gonja people and the Mamprusi in building the Mamprusi Kingdom. They have names like...

descendants continue to hold to this very day. In the popular 18th century Gonja Salaga Slave Market, the Yoruba residents of the town would not allow their...

northeastern Nigeria); the Tuareg (in Agadez, Maradi and Zinder); the Gur and Gonja (in northeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, northern Togo and upper Benin); Gwari...

invasion of the Gonja people. Gonja attacks in Western Dagbon (Tomo), especially at Daboya dealt a lot of damage to the Dagomba people. Naa Luro, though...

reaction of the Dyula in the Bono-Banda-Gonja region to these developments was to establish a kingdom of their own in Gonja - the territory northern traders...

Safa, village in Aley District, Lebanon Naba'a, a powerful leader of Gonja people in the 1600s and its kingdom in northern Ghana Nazir Nabaa (born 1938)...

known as the ‘’kono’’ by the Kassena people, ‘’animgbo’’ by the Dagomba people, and the ‘’gyilgo’’ by the Gonja people. Prof. J.K. Anquandah. "Ghana's Heart...

the Tamprusi people. The Tamprusi are located in the Northern Region, especially in the North Gonja District, dominated by the Gonja people and in the Mamprusi...

the North, The Gurunsi languages speaking peoples in the far North, The Gonjas in the Northern Region. English is the official language, with the indigenous...

historians in Gonja "Daa-Kpa Pia-Kpa, which means Conqueror through spear or the Spear Holder) was an African king, founder of a dynasty in Gonja (now part...

Golob (Tengzung, Upper East Region) Gologo festival Gwolgu Jintigi(All Gonja Towns, Northern Region) Kente Festival(Bonwire, Ashanti Region) Kloyosikplem...

capital of East Gonja district, a district in the Savannah Region of north Ghana. Salaga had a 2012 settlement population of 25,472 people. Salaga was the...

south of modern Ghana, as well as the Kingdoms of Dagbon, Mamprugu and Gonja in the north. One thesis based on oral evidence is that the Dagaaba formed...

Messenger in Basel in 1884. His accounts include everyday life of the Gonja people, the practice of Islam and the trans-Saharan slave trade. Within this...

Damongo is a town and the capital of West Gonja Municipal, a municipal in the Savannah Region of northern Ghana. On 12 February 2019, Damongo was declared...

related people whose lands were also unified. This include the Mamprusi, Nanumba, Gonja, Mossi, Gurunsi (in particular the Frafra and Kusasi peoples), the...

wrong beliefs. Gonja where there is a waterfall known as NDURUMO of about 400 m along the Hingilili river, Ibwe leteta, sacred forests, Gonja Lutheran hospital...

Ewe, Fante, Ga, Dangme, Dagbani, Nzema,ahanta language(ahantas) Dagaare, Gonja and Kasena. During the colonial era, a number of Europeans intermarried...

practice scarification are the Gonja, Dagomba, Frafra, Mamprusi, Nanumba, Bali, Tɔfin, Bobo, Montol, Kofyar, Yoruba, and Tiv people of West Africa, and the Dinka...

Akosombo Dam in southeastern Ghana to the town of Yapei in the Central Gonja District, Northern Region of Ghana, some 400 kilometres (250 mi) to the...