Mamprusi people

Mamprusi people
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 people  Mamprusi
 language  Mampruli
 country  Mamprugu

The Mamprusi or Mamprussi are an ethnic group of northern Ghana and Togo. There are some 450,000 living in Ghana, and approximately 11,000 in Togo. In Ghana, the Mamprusis live mainly in Nalerigu and Gambaga in the northwest of the Northern Region but also inhabit parts of the Upper East Region.

The Mamprusi kingdom was found around the 12 century by the Great Naa Gbanwah/Gbewah at Pusiga, a village 14 km from Bawku. The Kingdom spawns most of the Northern and the Upper East Regions of Ghana, and into the West African Nation of Burkina Faso.As a consequence, the King of Moshie to this day is enskinned by the Nayiri--the king of Mamprugu. Thus, establishing this kingdom as the pre-eminent of its kind, and the only kingdom in present day Ghana whose relevance and authority cuts across National boundaries on the weight of its humble supremacy. The name of the kingdom is Mamprugu, the ethnicity is Mamprusi, and the language is Mampruli.

Mamprusis revere the hallowed grounds of Bawku as their ancestral home, their origin. That is why Naa Gbewah's tomb in Pusiga, is a shrine of repute to this day. It is believed that his disappearance was subteraneal, one of the marvels of Northern Ghana, and Many ethinicities hold to agree with this uncommon historical account. It was after his death that his children moved farther afield and found other kingdoms, namely: Dagbon and Namum.

Note that the name Naa Gbanwah and Gbewah can be used interchangeably, the difference being that mamprusis refer to him as gbanwah and dagombas refer to him as gbewah. It is just a difference in pronunciations.

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