Kyode people
The -speaking Gikyode. Akyode people live in the northern Volta basin in the Oti Region of Ghana, Africa.[1] They are considered as the indigenous people of the Nkwanta South District. 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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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, which means king of the kingdom.
References[]
- ^ The Peoples of Africa, by James Stewart Olson, 1996
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