THE GONJAS OF GHANA || FACTS ABOUT THE GONJA PEOPLE & GONJA LANGUAGE || NGBANYE
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- Gonjas are Northern Guans who dwell in the Savannah Region of Ghana. They have for long been misconcepted as Mandigoes or Mandes without taking into account that they speak a Guan Language. The fact that Gonjas are mainly Muslims or enskin their chief's does not make them Gurs. Even the Chakosis are mainly Muslims themselves who also enskin their chiefs.
Gonjaland hosts the Larabanga mosque, the Mole-National Game Reserve, Daboya Salt mine, the Black Volta and the White Volta etc.
Well known Gonja communities include Yapei, Buipe, Fufulso, Damongo, Bole, Salaga, Daboya.
Gonja Language is closely related to Ntsumburun, Nawuri etc.
Gonja has dialects including Kplan or Kpilan, Dompo, etc
We look at the history of the people in this video and their present state. Gonjas are Guans.
For further Knowledge, look up these stories on my channel
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Gonjas were actually the last of the Guans to arrive in present day Ghana and they were lead by Ndewura Jakpa together with some Mandes councillors. The Mandes assisted Ndewura Jakpa with leadership and war strategies to enable him expand his territories. It is actually the Gonjas who brought the Akans along. The reason for the Gonja/Mande alliance was due to the fact that Guans were normally lead by Priests as they were more religious oriented and avoided war at all cost. In fact, it was one of such priest who told Ndewura Jakpa to journey south-east because he was going to be a great person on that foreign land where some Guans had settled already. The first Guan migration towards the south was to avoid Islamic religion being forced one them.
Gonjas were the first to arrive in Ghana and they're the Mande warriors who were led by Ndewura Jakpa. Mande people are Mandingo \ Mandinka. The Gonjas were influenced by Islam in the north but they still speak their Guan language. I think all Guans and Akans migrated from Mali to ancient Ghana (Kubi Saleh) and then to present day Ghana. The Mandes were said to be Jews who fled from Babylonian and Assyrian wars and migrated to West Africa according to history. Gonja traditions are that of the Hebrew Torah even though, most of them have converted to Islam.
Well done
Thank you
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Asan kushung
I'm Akan but my great great grandfather has roots at Damongo.
I can understand Guan if I listen carefully as some twi words originate from Guan too.
Exactly
I love ur teaching alot. I have problem somewhere, the Nafaana are not mande but rather they are Senoufo. I speak both dyula and nafaanra. They're of different language groups
Yes please! I know they are Senufo just like the Ligbi (Ndwera) and Badu. Senufo is actually a branch of the Mande Language just like English is a branch of the Germanic Languages
@@Huniah_Guan No No No brother if you tell a Sénufo man that he will kill you🤣🤣🤣! But they are very close to the Mandinkas culturally we confuse them in Ivory Coast all the time they don’t like it . But I think that the Guang are certainly culturally close to them too however they were not mentioned in the video .
Sure! He got it all wrong. I know Senufo are of Mande origin as in a wider Language family and not necessarily Mande.
He thought I said they are Mande which he misunderstood
One other proposal people know about the northern Mandinka‘s but what about the southern Madinkas it is most likely possible that if they were of Mandingo heritage or a Southern Mandinka/Seunfo-Gur mixture for sure but nothing to do with Bambara and Malinke because there is no visible influence but I heard Guang languages and they definitely have a Mandinka feel to them Like Gouro in Ivory Coast .
Im curious to know what a Guan (Akuapem) and Guan (Gonja) traditoonal wedding would look / play out like... I'm Akuapem and my partner a Gonja from Damongo.
Gonjas are more Islam oriented so it'll play out as an Islamic wedding
So is that what distinguishes the Ashanti from the rest of the Akan they have no Guan admixture do they because when you gave that Owura example I was shocked that how can a tribe so far north have an influence as far south as the Nzema . But then you said that they fled south after the ancestors of the Akans went to war with them so dose that mean that all the Akans in Ivory Coast have Guang admixture? Most Ivorian Akan tribes that crossed the Komoe river mixed with the Nzema and Agni/Ayini who have Guang admixture this would explain why we are so different from the Ashantis (linguistically not culturally)even doe we are related to them this must be taught to us to I’m very grateful to learn this!
Thank you!
Asantes are the head of all Akans including Kwahus, Akwamu, Akuapim etc. Culturally Akans are same even naming and Abusua plus language similarities. Even Akans in Ivory speak I understand
The Mande people were said to be Jews in history. I'm a Gonja and from a traditional clan. Gonjas always say they are from Mande. The Mandes.are Mandingo \ Mandinka and Barbara but not senoufo. I think all Guans are Mandes and we and the Akans all migrated from Mali and from the same ancestor. We all migrated from ancient Israel to West Africa during the Babylonian and Assyrian wars. From Mali we migrated to ancient Ghana (Kubi Saleh) and then to present Ghana.
Thank you Sir for the wonderful piece, I have a problem with the meaning of the word "bool3" ,please make a research on it properly, there is a common saying that when Ndewura Jakpa and his entourage were passing through the territory ,they were told to "Bual3" which means pass here hence this gave rise to the name Bole.
Also ,Our Traditional Capital as Gonjas is not Damongo but rather "Nyag3: close to Sawla,Damongo is a relocation of our former king in the 1980's due to some bad Omen that befelled the previous kings of the kingdom, so we can say that Damongo is only a temporary settlement of our kings but not recognized Traditionally as our capital.
There is also a saying that Ndewura Jakpa was not the man who led us from Mande to the then Gold coast but as we all know our rule is usually a succession to the throne and hence there were the families (parents) of Jakpa who led the Gonjas out of Mande when they(the warriors) were signed by their ruler ,theft home and never returned...through their quest for a better settlement for their followers there was a succession to the throne until it was the time of Jakpa and he was well known for his Military tactics and power,hence he became the protagonist who led the Gonjas (warriors)to secure a better place to settle.
Please I am subjected to correction as I may have made errors myself but I obtained this knowledge from a manuscript written by my father and later prepared and published as a book by my Elder Brother, titled "GONJA,THE MANDIGOES OF GHANA " . Thank you
Well, for Ebɔɔlɛ, it is a word that cuts across all Guan Languages even those in the south. And considering they are nowhere near the Gonjas or even aware of the Gonjas.
When looking at history, or better still Language groups, you look at the wider family and not the closed group,in this case Gonja, or separated group as people to establish facts.Else, it creates division.
Thanks for your enlightenment on Ndewura.Your comment has been loved. Wish you could throw more enlightenment since this channel is all about Guan Languages and Guan tribes education.
I appreciate your enlightenment but with respect to Eboole, that's the little I can say. Also, you can look up this video on the complete history of the Guans.
History of the Guans part 1 -th-cam.com/video/AxG4RIoKcGs/w-d-xo.html
History of the Guans part 2 - th-cam.com/video/5VsLcvpL-rk/w-d-xo.html
Bro if you're actually called Tampuori or Tampuri I dare you to do proper checks on your origin and the tribal group you may belong to. I bare the same name and am not a Gonja. It is mostly found within these groups ;
Waala
Dagbanba
Mamprusi
Kusasi
Nanumba
Frafra
Mossi
Dagaaba.
If the story teller settles it's bases on the fact that most Gonja words are originated from the Guan dialect and for that matter Gonjas are a fraction of guans. I can also proclaim that the residents of Sawla Tuna Kaliba district and some parts of the Savannah region are also of Waala descents. Right from Kulmasa , Gindabuo , Yipaala , Goyiri , Kaliba , Nahare , Kong , Sawla deggre ,some parts of Tuna and Sawla speaks very fluent Waale language as their mother tongue. As a result of that they're been discriminated by other Gonjas in the new region. We will encourage you people to make a formal approach and defect to the Upper West Region were most of your members are found. More than 100 plus communities in the Upper West region has its roots with these group of people am talking about.
Bro let's link up and unite our people together.
Bro Tampuri, please learn your Gonja history well. The first Yagbonwura to settle in Damongo was Yagbonwura Ewuntomah Ewusi in 1943 and he died in 1975. So how can you say, Damongo is a temporary capital for Gonjas. You know very well that Nyange is a cottage and bush now. You also said Gonjas were not led by Ndewura Jakpa which is also wrong. Brother Hunia is not a Gonja but he knows the history better than you.