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Gonja (also Ghanjawiyyu, endonym Ngbanya) are an ethnic group that live in Ghana. The Gonja established a kingdom in northern Ghana of the same name , which was founded in 1675 by Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa .
The Gonja language, properly called Ngbanya or Ngbanyito, [2] is a North Guang language spoken by an estimated 230,000 people, almost all of whom are of the Gonja ethnic group of northern Ghana. Related to Guang languages in the south of Ghana, it is spoken by about a third of the population in the northern region.
Dagbani, Dagare, Sisaala, Waale, and Gonja are among the most widely spoken in the northern part of the country. Ghana has more than seventy ethnic groups, each with its own distinct language. [11] Languages that belong to the same ethnic group are usually mutually intelligible.
Gonja was a kingdom in present-day northern Ghana founded in 1675 by Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa. [ 1 ] With the fall of the Songhai Empire (c. 1600), the Mande Ngbanya clan moved south, crossing the Black Volta and founding their capital city at Yagbum under the leadership of Naba'a .
The Guan or Guang people are an ethnic group found almost in all parts of Ghana, including the Akyode people who speak Gikyode, Anii, Krachi people Nkonya tribe, the Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Akposo, Etsii in the Central Region, Nawuri, Nyagbo and Ntsumburu.
The term ethnic Ghanaian may also be used in some contexts to refer to a group of related ethnic groups native to the Gold Coast. ... Dagaare, Gonja and Kasena. ...
The 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 had to cross to reach Akan forestlands, situated in what is now modern Ghana. By 1675, Gonja had established a paramount chief called Yagbongwura to control the kingdom. But Gonja was ...
Ndewura Jakpa (Jakpa according to some historians in Gonja "Daa-Kpa Pia-Kpa, which means Conqueror through spear or the Spear Holder) [1] was an African king, founder of a dynasty in Gonja (now part of northern Ghana), in the early 17th century.