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Everything you need to know about late Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama II, King of Dagbon
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One quiet footnote from those early days: the palace had to formally correct the record, instructing media houses to call him Ya-Na Abukari II, not Ya-Na Abukari Mahama II — a small but deliberate act of asserting his own identity as king, separate from the name he carried before the skins.
And Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama II — the man who used to be just Alhaji Abukari Mahama, chief of Savelugu — became the 41st overlord of one of Ghana's oldest kingdoms.
The death of Yaa Naa Mahama Abukari II marks the end of a reign that represented a new chapter in Dagbon’s history, following one of Ghana’s longest-running traditional leadership disputes.
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