The History Of Mamprusi
The Mamprusi realm is one of a few related
states established in the far off past by relatives of Na Gbewa, who,
supposedly, entered the region from the upper east in departure from a seeking
after armed force. Mamprusi legend recognizes this time as only not long after
the start of the world and distinguishes individuals who gave the Na Gbewa
shelter as the first occupants of the district. Students of history recommend
that a pioneer behind Mamprusi sovereignty might have shown up nearby in the
fourteenth hundred years, during a period that would harmonize with the
breakdown of Fulani emirates in what is currently northern Nigeria and the
dispersal of rulers and their supporters from that locale. Mamprusi customs are
ambiguous with respect to the origination of Na Gbewa yet decided about the
area of his entombment site at Pusiga, upper east of the current capital. This
is supposed to be where Na Gbewa previously halted and established the first
capital. At the point when he was exceptionally old, the progression was
challenged and his #1 child killed by an opponent sovereign. On hearing the
fresh insight about his child's demise, Na Gbewa vanished — he was gulped into
the earth at the site of his castle, a spot in the shrub where penances are as
yet made to his soul. Throughout the contention that followed his demise, his
realm was partitioned; senior and more youthful siblings became rulers of the
Mamprusi and Dagomba people groups, individually. Mossi rulers are relatives of
a last Mamprusi lord's little girl who ran off from her dad's town when the
capital had been moved from Pusiga to Gambaga.
The arrangement of connections among
Mamprusi, Dagomba, and Mossi realms that emerges from this set of experiences
is communicated in the Mamprusi perspective on Dagomba rulers as their lesser
siblings and Mossi lords as grandsons of their own ruler. This adds up to a
statement of Mamprusi status. Previously, this assumed rank was converted into
specific types of ordinary way of behaving held to be fitting among family when
Mossi, Dagomba, and Mamprusi met each other, especially in market circumstances
yet additionally in political/ceremonial settings.
East and West Mamprusi regions reach out
more than five regional sections, or areas, of the previous realm. Every one of
these, similar to the realms established by various relatives of Na Gbewa, is
viewed as the acquired space of a particular patriline established by the child
of a Mamprusi ruler. (It ought to be accentuated that the idea of space
doesn't, in this specific situation, suggest select freedoms to utilize or
discard land, yet rather political authority concerning the populace.) The
focal region incorporates the lord's town at Nalerigu and different settlements
where individuals from the rulers patrilineage hold mainly office. Toward the
west, from north to south, are the regions of Kpasinkpe, Wungu, and Janga.
Toward the east, the area of Yunyo isolates Nalerigu from the Togo line. The
central head of every one of these territories is political top of a relating
patrilineage, which gives illustrious bosses in that territory. The Mamprusi
ruler's title, nayiiri, ( na = "lord" or "boss"; yiiri =
"house") is special, and, not at all like that of the commonplace
paramounts or those of the Mossi and Dagomba rulers, it isn't connected to the
name of a specific region. It infers his situation at the actual focal point of
the nation, where he is the wellspring of naam, the enchanted part of mostly
power.
The precolonial history of the Mamprusi is
at this point realized exclusively through a periodic put down accounts
produced using legend. At the turn of the 20th 100 years, the Mossi, Dagomba,
and Mamprusi realms were attacked by British-, French-, and German-drove
troops. A first deal with the Mamprusi ruler was made by George Ekom Fergusen —
and challenged by the French. Afterward, British soldiers drove by a specific
Capt. Stewart got comfortable Gambaga (1897-1902), where he haggled with French
officials in the Mossi realm of Tengkudugu toward the upper east and with
Germon officials toward the east, across what is currently the Togo line. A
last settlement in Vienna in 1902 laid out the current limits among Togo and
Ghana in the east, and among Ghana and Burkina Faso in the north.
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