1892 Sack of Salaga explained

Place:Salaga, Ghana
Coordinates:8°33′N 0°31′W

The 1892 Sack of Salaga was a Gonja civil war for the control of the town of Salaga that occurred on December 5, 1892. A rebellion led by Kabachewura Isifa and assisted by his Dagomba and Nanumba allies overthrew Kpembewura Napo who died in exile in the same year.[1]

Yaa Naa Andani, the King of Dagbon at that time was against the disruption in the region, and sent a strongly worded letter to the incumbent Kpembewura Isanwurfo in 1894 to quell the internecine struggles to avoid further hurting trade in the slave market.[2] The war led to a mass exodus of mostly Zongo people out of the region, significantly depleting its population and giving birth to a wave of Islamic proselytizing in the forest areas of modern Ghana.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Johnson . Marion . 1986 . The Slaves of Salaga . The Journal of African History . 27 . 2 . 341–362 . 10.1017/S0021853700036707 . 181139 . 162923525 . 0021-8537.
  2. Book: Contesting Islam: "Homegrown Wahhabism," Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005 . Abdulai Iddrisu . 2009 . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . 283 . 9781109220643.
  3. Book: Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 4: The Writings of Western Sudanic Africa . BRILL . John O. Hunwick, R. Rex S. O'Fahey . 2003 . 814 . 9789004124448.