BACKGROUND OF THE ARTICLE. The Biases of the elephant against the lion and leopard: Mamprugu, Dagbon and Nanung are the three main sister states/kingdoms of Naa Gbewaa in Northern Ghana. The other sister state/kingdom is the Mossi Kingdom in Burkina Faso. The Builsa Chiefdom, Nabdan Chiefdom, Talensi Chiefdom, and the Waala Chiefdom are the other…
Aboriginal Dagombas : Origin Both written and oral literature has it that the ordinary Aboriginal Dagombas arrived in ancient Dagbon before the rulers (Naa Gbewaa and his descendants). According to Tamakloe, when Naa Nyagsi and his father “Naa Sitobu” arrived in modern Dagbon about the year 1416, the ordinary man was already in Dagbon. Tindamba…
Slave Trade and its Resistance In The Gbewaa States — Both written and oral literature had it that the ordinary Dagbamba (Dagomba) man arrived in ancient Dagbon before the rulers, Naa Gbewaa and his descendants (Fusheini Yakubu 2013: 1). According to Tamakloe, when Naa Nyagsi and his father “Naa Sitobu” arrived in modern Dagbon in…
