Some of the Ashantis during the Asante Conquest left the Asante Empire. They migrated from Adansi and Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region before the year 1600 AD. The departure of this people was spearheaded by one Nana Osei Twum with support from his nephew called Badu, his younger brother called Kwasi Titiiti, his servant and few of his followers. Days after travelling, they got to a stream around present day Mount Apaku where they came across a rock with a jar-like shape. They interpreted that as a good omen and they called the place Obo-kuruwa meaning “stone jar.” “Obo kuruwa” gradually became “Bukuruwa.” Twum died there and was succeeded by his nephew Badu. During Badu’s reign, other groups joined them possibly from the Akan group who were migrating to Worawora. The Akans pursued them. The people got to the mountainous regions were they are currently located. They one day woke up to see their pursuers approaching them. They quickly gathered huge rocks and rolled them d...

  The Senufo ethnic group comprises of a group of people that are originally from the Ivory Coast, a neighbouring country of Ghana to the western border. They migrated to Ghana and they form a continuum of the Senufo ethnic group from Ivory Coast into Ghana. These languages are related to each other in the Ivory Coast and they represent the widely spoken languages in the Ivory Coast. Those spoken in Ghana relate each other but not so much except they have close relations with certain languages in the Ivory Coast. This is to say that if you should learn a Senufo language in Ghana, when you get to Ivory Coast, you would have less trouble communicating with natives although French may come in handy. Senufo languages are a branch of the wider Mande languages spoken in the Senegal and Mali areas. The Senufo are descendants of the Mande so they mostly practice the Islamic Region. Thus, the Senufo in Ghana, Nafaana, Ndwera (Ligbi) and Badu are mostly Muslims with quite a few being Chr...

  The Ghana-Togo Mountain languages are small languages which are somewhat related to each other and they are spoken within the Volta and Oti Regions of Ghana. They have linguistic affinities with each other and some of them believe to be speaking a variant of Ewe or even believe that they are Ewes and such include the people of Logba (Akpanawo), Nyagbo (Batugbu), Tafi (Bagbo) and Avatime (Kedonee). These four language groups spoken in the Volta Region are related a lot to each other and they are the Volta-GTM languages also referred to by some linguists as the Na-GTM languages. The Logba language is called Ikpana or Akpana by its speakers and the people of Logba are called Akpanawo. Logba is an exodem. An exodem simply means it is not the way the people would refer to themselves. The people of Logba occupy about eight small communities within the Volta Region namely Alakpeti, Tota, Klikpo, Adzakoe, Aya, Adziveme, Ogome and Wuinta. Nyagbo and Tafi call their language “Gbɔ” so t...