What are Mamprusis Burkinabes?

Answer 1

The Mamprusi tribe is mostly found in Ghana as the home of the Mamprusi people but are not Burkinabes as some might have claimed.Some may be found in Burkina Faso as having migrated there to do some work to earn some income The fact of the matter is that the Mamprusi tribe has not been accepted as one of the Burkina faso tribes recognized by the Government.The Mossi people left Gambaga in Ghana several generations ago when Tohajie introduced the chieftaincy institution to the Dagomba, Mamprusi and Mossi people with the Mossi people migrating with their chieftaincy to Burkina Faso.The Dagomba and Mamprusi did not introduce chieftaincy to Mossi people rather they all learnt it from the same people.The story of the grand mother of the Mossi royals from Gambaga talked about her father as a chief of Dagombas, Mamprusis and Mossi people because the mossi non royals claim that they did not have the same origin with the royals.The first chiefs of Dagomba,Mamprusis and Mossi were said to have been Berbers who were said to have originated from a mixture of Arabs and Spanish warriors who came by way of Northern Nigeria into Mali, Burkina Faso, and into Ghana.Their descendents became Dagomba,Mamprusi and Mossi royals after their grandfathers assimilated into Dagomba ,Mamprusi and Mossi and became the royals of the various tribes.Another history disclosed that the grandfathers of Dagombas,Mamprusis and Mossi people fought wars with the Arabs before they had their chieftaincies because the institution was difficult to get it from those who introduced it because from the beginning they were too powerful and were their rulers so the three tribes had to combine and fought them off before they migrated with their chieftaincy from far away into Ghana and again went away with their individual chieftaincy.The Sanga village which is a mossi Yanga village in Burkina Faso was said to have been a place where Naa Gbewa first settled because his father was a brother of the fathers of the Mossi yangas and they were also royals of Gambaga chieftaincy from where he moved to Pusiga in Ghana.When the British arrived in Bawku in the 1800s the British and French were struggling for territory, the Mossi Yangas who were also royals of Gambaga told the British that they were under Nayiri and Nayiri had enskinned the chief of Sanga and told him to represent the mossi yangas who extended from Bawku villages across into Burkina Faso and Togo and at a meeting organized by the British officials in Bawku there was a clash during the meeting the and the chief of Sanga fled to his hometown and when order was restored and the meeting started he was not present so the mossi yangas were not represented in the British side and those living across into Burkina Faso and Togo were annexed by the French because they had fought wars and captured the mossi headquarters of ouagadougou down into those areas because they were in control and used military might to control and cut any chief from British territory off and told them their chieftaincy ended in gold coast now ghana.It was later that those in Ghana were placed under Bawku chieftaincy when the paramountcy was created.As for the Mossi Yangas living across into Burkina Faso and Togo they are under the mossi chieftaincy and their language is more similar to the Mossi language and is a dialect of mossi language .Because it is written in books that the mossi people said their chiefs originated from Northern Ghana people just concluded that they were Mamprusi and Dagomba people forgetting that the Mossi people were also living in Mamprusi and Dagomba area before they left for burkina Faso as some historians disclosed.