The Kusasi, Kusaasi, or the Kusaal people, are an ethnic group in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso. They speak the Kusaal language, which is a Gur language.[1]
Festival edit
The Kusaasi celebrate the Samanpiid Festival.[2] The festival is used to thank God for a bumper harvest during the farming season.[2][3] The festival was first celebrated in 1987.[3]
References edit
- ^ Kusaal language. Ethnologue.com.
- ^ a b "Rawlings calls for cabinet reshuffle". www.ghanaweb.com. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Mahama's appointees not correct - Rawlings". myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
External links edit
- Kusaal, Ghana. Joshua Project. Page Last Modified: 28-May-2009.
- Ghana: Kusasi Opinion Leaders Attribute Recent Violence in Bawku to Armed Robbers. Baba Kofi Yaro, Public Agenda (Accra) 8 May 2009.
- The Peoples Of Northern Ghana. National Commission On Culture of the government of Ghana.
- Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention. Carola Lentz, Paul Nugent Eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 ISBN 0-312-22405-2 pp. 57–67