Dagomba

The Dagomba is people of the north of the Ghana speaking the language Dagbani, he belongs to more Dagbani sub-group of the languages Gur.

The More/Mossi are present at the Burkina Faso, the Dagbani sub-group, nowadays is burst in 3 ethnicities: Dagbamba, Mamprusi and Nanumba. Even if these groups seemingly set up three ethnic groups distinct, their people are always identified the ones with the others, the bond is particularly strong between Dagbamba and Nanumba. The center of population of Dagbamba called Dagbon covers a territory of approximately 8,000 sq. miles and has a total population of approximately 650,000 inhabitants. The territory extends on seven administrative districts from Ghana. They are municipalities of the capital of the area of north, Tamale: Tolon/Kumbungu, Savelugu/Nantong, Yendi, Gushegu/Karaga, Zabzugu/Tatali and Saboba/Cheriponi.

The supreme leader of the traditional kingdom dagbon is Ya-Na, translated literally by the " king with the capacity absolu" , its seat consists of a collection of skins of Vache S, thus when it is treated political history of Dagbon, it is often refers to it like Yendi Skin " skin of Yendi" , and not the throne or the crown. The court and the administrative capital of Ya Na are located at Yendi, famous to be the largest village of the West Africa. The kingdom dagbon has up to now traditional administrative responsibilities on, of the groups without chiefs and not laminated, such as Konkomba, Bimoba, Chekosi, Basaari, Chamba, and Zantasi. Although the Dagbamba ethnicity represents the majority of the population, people of the " ethnicities; sujets" have equal rights of citizenship in the kingdom.

Na Gbewaa is regarded as the founder of the territory of Large the dagbon " Greater Dagbon" who nowadays gathers Dagbon, Mamprugu and Nanung. Not having written culture, Dagbamba one of the cultural groups having an oral culture sophisticated are woven around drum S and other musical instruments. Thus the major part of their history, until very recently, was based on the oral tradition with the players of drums making office of historians. According to the oral tradition, the political history of Dagbon has as a genesis the legendary history of Tohavie , which results in the " hunter rouge".

Culturally, Dagbon is strongly influenced by the Islam. The transmission is patrilineal. The important festivals include Damba, Bugum (festival of fire) and the two Islamic festivals of Eid. The most cosmopolitan city of Dagbon is Tamale, which is also used as Scandinavian regional capital.

See too

List of the ethnicities of Africa
Dagbani
Kingdom Mossi

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