Guan people
Ethnic group in Northern Ghana
Ethnic group in Northern Ghana
The Guan 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 Akpana/Logba people who speak Ikpana, the Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Akposo, Etsii in the Central Region, Nawuri, Nyagbo and Ntsumburu. The Guan are believed to have been the first settlers in modern-day southern Ghana, migrating from the Mossi-Dagbon region of modern Ghana and Burkina around 1000 A.D. The Gonja of the Guan are, however, late settlers in northern Ghana, invading eastern Dagbon in the 1600s, capturing Daboya and many towns. They primarily speak the Guan languages of the Niger-Congo language family. They make up 3.7% of the population of Ghana. However, some of the Guan languages have been influenced by major languages especially the Anii-Basila in Ghana, depending also on the location of a particular Guan tribe. Guans can be found in the Eastern region, which includes Anum, Makɔ who once spoke Anii, Boso, Larteh, Okere, and...
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