Kyode people
Ethnic group in Ghana From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Guan-speaking Gikyode. Akyode people live in the northern Volta basin in the Oti Region of Ghana, Africa.[1] These people migrated into the Volta valley from the Mossi region of Burkina Faso around 1000 AD. The Akyode language is called Gikyode.
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Northern Volta basin, Oti Region, Ghana | |
| Languages | |
| Akyode, French | |
| Religion | |
| Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| subgroup of the Guang people and the Mossi people |
The Akyodes are made up of communities, Shiare, Abrewanko, Nyambong, Kyilinga, Siban, Pawa, Bonakye, Gekorong, Kanba (Abrewanko Junction), Nyakoma,Kromase, and]. The paramount seat is in Shiare. Kingship is called gewura, and is the form of leadership in these communities. Each community has a chief, or wura, who rules the town. The chief of Kromase is called kromase wura. But the chief of Shiare can be called shiare wura or osulewura.
The Akyode people came to meet the people of Challa who migrated from Eastern part of Nigeria to Ghana in Amurifa around the Kyabobo Mountain. The Challas divided themselves into groups to settle at different areas in the present Nkwanta south Municipality, Odomi, Keri and Kue and some move to Togo and Benin. They welcomed the Akyode people and assigned them to Shiare to do their menial jobs in agriculture and hunting. History is told that the Akyodes undertook their initiation rituals under the authority of the Challa Priest known as SeiBine before they are able to perform rites of the Akyode deity known as Burukum.
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