Yagbum was the capital city of the Gonja (kingdom) founded by Naba'a of the Ngbanya dynasty. Naba'a reigned from 1552/3 to 1582/3.[1]
It is now northern Ghana, near the Black Volta and was founded by the Mande horsemen (c. 1600).
References
- ↑ Wilks,Ivor. Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1997). Bakewell, Peter (ed.). Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas. Aldershot: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 30.
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- Wilks, Ivor (October 1982). "Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. II. The Struggle for Trade". The Journal of African History. 23 (4): 463–472. doi:10.1017/s0021853700021307. ISSN 0021-8537. S2CID 163064591.
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