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Kyode People
The Guan-speaking Gikyode. Akyode people live in the northern Volta basin in the Oti Region of Ghana, Africa.The Peoples of Africa, by James Stewart Olson, 1996 These people migrated into the Volta valley from the Mossi region of Burkina Faso around 1000 AD. The Akyode language is called ''Gikyode''. 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 , and is the form of leadership in these communities. Each community has a chief, or , who rules the town. The chief of Kromase is called . But the chief of Shiare Shiare is a village mountain settlement in the Breast Mountains in the Oti region of Ghana. The Oti Region is in the northern part of the Volta Region. Shiare is a part of Nkwanta South Municipal District. It is noted that the village settleme ... can be called or . The Akyode people came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volta River
The Volta River (, , ) is the main Drainage system (geomorphology), river system in the West African country of Ghana. It flows south into Ghana from the Bobo-Dioulasso Department, Bobo-Dioulasso highlands of Burkina Faso. The three main parts of the river are the Black Volta, the White Volta, and the Red Volta. In the northwest, the Black Volta forms the international borders of the Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. The Volta flows southward along the Akwapim-Togoland highlands, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean at the Gulf of Guinea at Ada Foah. One of its smaller tributaries, the Oti River, Oti River, enters Ghana from Togo in the east. The Volta River has been dammed at Akosombo for generating hydroelectricity. The reservoir named Lake Volta stretches from Akosombo Dam in the south to the northern part of the country, and is the largest man-made reservoir by area in the world. The country of Burkina Faso was formerly called Republic of Upper Volta, Upper Volta, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |