Kusasi people

The Kusasi people (var. Kusaasi) are an ethnic group in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso. They speak Kusaal, a Gur language.[1]

Festival

The Kusasi people celebrate the Samanpiid Festival.[2] The festival is one that is used to thank God for a bumper harvest during the farming season.[2][3] The festival was first celebrated in 1987.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kusaal language. Ethnologue.com.
  2. 1 2 "Rawlings calls for cabinet reshuffle". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Mahama's appointees not correct - Rawlings". myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  • Kusasi, Eastern of Ghana. Joshua Project. Page Last Modified: 28-May-2009.
  • Ghana: Kusasi Opinion Leaders Attribute Recent Violence in Bawku to Armed Robbers. Baba Kofi Yaro, Public Agenda (Accra) 8 May 2009.
  • The Peoples Of Northern Ghana. National Commission On Culture of the government of Ghana.
  • Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention. Carola Lentz, Paul Nugent Eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 ISBN 0-312-22405-2 pp. 57–67
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