Full list of Dagbon kings from Yaa Naa Nyagse to Ya-Na Abukari II

Full list of Dagbon kings from Yaa Naa Nyagse to Ya-Na Abukari II

By GhanaSummary Newsroom

Mahami's relatively long reign of nearly two decades came during a period of early 19th-century shifts in northern Ghana's political landscape, as Sahelian trade networks continued to shape Dagbon's economic relationships.

Son of Tutugri and listed as the 16th Ya-Na in some genealogies, Zangina's reign was one of the most historically significant of the early period.

His extended reign of over two decades saw the kingdom navigate early contacts with European powers, until the British and German partition of Dagbon's territory in 1899 fundamentally changed the kingdom's political reality.

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