The Story of Princess Yennenga, Mother of the Mossi People in Burkina Faso
Yennenga, the only daughter of Na Gbewa, was said to very beautiful (as all Mole-Dagbani women are, even today) and beloved princess who from the...
Category : CULTURE AND HISTORY
The Story of How Supt. Salifu Dagarti, a Dagaaba Security guard, took a bullet for Kwame Nkrumah at the Flagstaff House
Jan 2, 1964. Nkrumah walks the grounds of Flagstaff House with personal guards and ‘trusted’ cops aplenty. An assassin squeezes off a bullet and misses....
The Dagbon Conference of 1930
The Dagbon Conference of 1930 opened on November 24. Though the primary reason for the conference, from the point of view of the colonial government,...
The Story of Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II (1945–2002)
Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II (1945–2002) was the King of Dagbon, the traditional kingdom of the Dagomba people in northern Ghana, from 31 May 1974 until his assassination on 27...
What Do you know about the Dagaaba people? (2)
Traditional Dagaaba communities are based on the “Yir” subclan or household group, a series of which are clustered into the “Tengan”, an earth deity shrine...
What Do you know about the Dagaaba people? (1)
The Dagaaba people (singular Dagao, and, in northern dialects, Dagara for both plural and singular) are an ethnic group in the African nations of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire. They speak the Dagaare language, made up...
Naa Nyagse, King of Dagbon from 1416 to 1432
After Sitobu founded the Dagbon Kingdom the kingship became known as Ya Naa, literally meaning King of strength (power). After the death of Sitobu he...
The Partition of Dagbon: Ya Naa Alasani (1899 to 1917)
Upon his ascension to Yani, Ya Naa Alasani enskinned his uncle Korli Naa Bukari Narkaw to the now vacant skin of Karaga. Ya Naa Alassani...
The Origin of the Dagaaba-Frafra joking Relationship
The origin of the Gurune-Dagaaba relationship is as yet undetermined. Little is known as to its origin. People accept joking as a common practice between...
The Partition of Dagbon – Ya Naa Alasani (1899 to 1917)
Upon his ascension to Yani, Ya Naa Alasani enskinned his uncle Korli Naa Bukari Narkaw to the now vacant skin of Karaga. Ya Naa Alassani...