1892 Sack of Salaga
Location
Salaga, Ghana
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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References

  1. ↑ Johnson, Marion (1986). "The Slaves of Salaga". The Journal of African History. 27 (2): 341–362. doi:10.1017/S0021853700036707. ISSN 0021-8537. JSTOR 181139. S2CID 162923525.
  2. ↑ Abdulai Iddrisu (2009). Contesting Islam: "Homegrown Wahhabism," Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. p. 283. ISBN 9781109220643.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ John O. Hunwick, R. Rex S. O'Fahey (2003). Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 4: The Writings of Western Sudanic Africa. BRILL. p. 814. ISBN 9789004124448.

8°33′N 0°31′W / 8.550°N 0.517°W / 8.550; -0.517

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