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The Chronology of Bono-Manso

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

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References

2 Fage, J. D., ‘Early History of the Mossi-Dagomba Group of States’ in The Historian in Tropical Africa, Oxford University Press (1964), 178.Google Scholar

3 A song sung at the Apo festival at Tekyiman refers to this kingdom, it starts: Yefiri Mossi, o, ‘We came from Mossi, O’.

4 Information obtained at Buipe in 1967 from the Buipewura Konkonte and the Kagbapewura Badiyako.

5 Goody, J., The Ethnography of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1954), 48.Google Scholar

6 The Bonohene Berempon Katakyira was enstooled in 1564. In his early reign, Mande warriors, beaten in battle by the neighbouring Begho people, sought safety in Bono-Manso; others under their commander Naba'a went to Bona (Ivory Coast) but were expelled after quarrels and drifted into western Gonja. There, Naba'a with local help soon made himself king, in 1566/7 according to the Kanankulaiwura's manuscript, according to the Kitāb Ghunja in 1550. Again the first two dates seem in agreement and 1550 too early.