Category: My History My Heritage

The Gonja people engage in the cultivation of some fields with various kinds of millet and some maize.

When in exile, Sulemana styled himself as the King of Yagbong. His settlement in Atebubu was a province under the Chief of Mampong.

Jakpa and his men now pushed eastward between the White and Black Volta Rivers, routing Kahu (Laribanga) and the big town of Kurase, South-West of Damongo mostly occupied by a section of the Dagbamba.

…… From the time of the taking of the oath on the Qur’an, open hostilities between Chari Manwura and Lata Dii Ngoro Jakpa ceased. In 1675/6 Lata Dii Ngoro Jakpa abdicated and handed over the sovereignty to his son who was given the title of ‘Ndewura Jakpa’.

History has it that the Gonjas appeared in modern Ghana very early in the 16th Century. Currently, their language is spoken by an estimated 300,000 people, almost all of whom are of the Gonja ethnic group of northern Ghana. Ghana`s former President, John Dramani Mahama, is a Gonja

………. Soon there was an unprecedented influx of Akan immigrants who came to seek political asylum because they deity Letsu abhorred the shedding of blood.

Boso Gwa Traditional Area forms an integral part of the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern Region. Linguistically, the people of Boso belong to the Guan ethnic bloc, and had lived in the Mid-Volta Basin long before the Akamu arrived from Nyanawase to establish a permanent home at Akwamufie, 1733.

The Guan people are an ethnic group found almost in all parts of Ghana, including the Nkonya tribe, the Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Nawuri, and Ntsumburu, whose ancestors founded the Gonja state. They primarily speak the Guan languages of the Niger-Congo language family.