Major ethnic groups in Ghana and their peculiarities 

Ah I wish it were that simple! But we are really all mixed. Especially us in the west of Africa. As we started in the north east of Africa Ie. Egypt, Ethiopia and what is now recently known as the “Middle East” Don’t get me wrong there are definitely stereotypical looks in each tribe and even clans. However once you think you’ve got it figured out you will then see the same exact a look on the other side of Africa. 😂 As far as ethnicity: there are actually only 4 different indigenous ethnicities in Africa. Ie. Bantu (which is what people in the west typically mean when they say “black”), Nilotic people from the Nile river (average height 6”2- 6”4) named in the bible as Ethiopia “A Tall Smooth Skinned People” then you have Pigmy people who have an average height of 4”11 (Many Filipina’s derive from them as well as asia and Spain of course) and then you have Khoi San people of Southern Africa (believed to be the oldest tribe in the world) also where Chinese people come from. And lastly you Arab/Afro-Asiatic. And most of us are mixed. No one clan is “pure” Many Bantu people immigrated from west Africa to south hence why we have similar looks. Hope this helps somehow. But Rest assured we are all discovering our roots. Akan’s and MANY West African’s are only now discovering that we migrated from Egypt and Israel aka Canaan/Canaana/Akana/Alan The bible is the BEST reference for all ethnic history. I have discovered. We are featured a lot. In many aspects.

Not accurate hehehe.

Really true.

All present day Akans are from the Bono people

@@nisigate All present-day Akans used to live in the Bono region. It is not certain whether they all identified as Bonos or not, so it may be that they are not necessarily from the Bono people.

Konkonba are sub tribes of mole Dagombas. There are considered Dagombas.

Chech the sub title. The ethnic groups in GHAHA not in Togo. Konkombas are from Togo

My dad's fante and my mum's Ashanti but my mum speaks twi and it sounds almost identical to when my dad's fante

@@vi-negar9196 Fante and twi are dialects of the same language (Akan). Therefore, they sounds similar.

Would you say baoulé and agnin of Ivory Coast are Akans

@@connormurphy683 Yes, Bawule and agnin of Ivory Coast are Akans. Abla Pokou, the founder and the Queen mother of the Bawule was the niece of the Asante King Osei Tutu I. The Agnis as well migrated from the Asante Kingdom in Ghana to Ivory Coast.

Fante or Ashanti are not tribes. They are ethnic groups belonging to a larger umbrella ethnic group the Akan. A tribe is a community which consists of people from the same clan. That does not describe the Fante or Asante sufficiently. It is pejorative in fact. Fante comprises of numerous clans with a complex level of polities, i.e. Chiefs and ultimately a king. The Asante is similar but is a union of several states with a leader which i would describe as an empire i.e the Asantehene who presides over other kings - Omanhene within Asante. Fante and Asante Twi are regarded as separate languages not dialects of Twi. Fante is different as it has absorbed elements of the Guan languages.

hehe

They are all one tribe just different nickname which they adopted recently 😂

Bono(Abron/Brong) is part of the Akan, that's where Akan originated from and most of the culture of Akan. The narrator goofed without mentioning Bono. It should be the first and foremost

@Joseph Sonne yes! And I don’t want our language and cultures to die out

The ga tribe originated from nigeria from yoruba land

@@nanaofori3116 no stop misinforming people they transited through Nigeria

@Gingerbreadman GanjaFarmer Is Hausa spoken alot in Ghana?

Hausa isn’t only just a language it’s also an ancient civilization within the borders of Algeria and niger 🧐

It’s not just a language it’s an ethnic group...

Yes most kotokoli that live in Ghana Speak Hausa as well

Who told you that Hausa is spoken in Mali and Burkina Faso? Just full of ignorance.

Does mole dagbani include the Mossi of burkina faso

Yes of course! Thanks for watching Vinn.

Because the Hausa's are all over Africa

It’s Fulani not Hausa

@@Yayode_Akuafo_Patawah1145 OK so they made a mistake

Those who say that Hausa is the largest ethnic group in Africa don't know anything. The Hausa is only in Nigeria and Niger and with small populations of Hausa speakers in the Zongo communities in Cameroon and Ghana. However, the Fulani are by far the largest ethnic group in Africa. They're the largest ethnic group in Guinea Conakry and the 2nd largest in Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Cameroon, and the 3rd largest in Niger, Chad, Sudan, CAR, Eritrea, etc.

@@mahmudbarry7011 ok

We are talking of ethnic groups in GHAHA not Burkina Faso

That outfit is called a smock/fugu/batakari - very common amongst all people in the northern sector of the country

@@ghanalocal6713 thanks. Very helpful . props

Guan is not a tribe but an ethnic group. They are found all over Ghana from North to South. The Gonja tribe in the North, Effutu, Awutu tribe and Larteh in the south and many others in the now It Region.

@@dramaluvamens9313 ethnic group yes. We are taught to use word ethnic group not tribe as historians. True

@@chimakalu41 Actually now in Ghana, in education circles like anthropology in the universities, they are starting to use "people groups". There are so many non-native people groups in the country now. Some not even from the African continent.

Brongs are akans too, the area used be called Western Asante until it the bcm Brong-Ahafo reg. However, it's now divided into the Ahafo region - capital is Goaso, the Brong region - capital is Sunyani & the Brong East region- capital is Techiman They've their own dialect, in fact variations depending on the geographical area.

@@andromedab902 Thank you so much!!! 🙏🏿

Bono(Abron/Brong) is part of the Akan, that's where Akan originated from and most of the culture of Akan. The narrator goofed without mentioning Bono. It should be the first and foremost

Probably, yeah, they've Asafo companies, right?🤣🤣

Warrior tribe? They didn't fight the white man

@@veraaddoyobo8482 So what was the ethnic group known for?

@@chimakalu41 not fighting the white man

@@veraaddoyobo8482 I see what in your opinion is their most outstanding trait ?

Nzema people are Ashanti's. They are part of the kotoko family remember. The are Akans and are linked with the Ashanti tribe.

They always forget

Ei Nzema is Ashanti? OK then you might as well say all Guans are Ashanti erh...

Nzema is related to the Guan though they are now Akanised

Bono(Abron/Brong) is part of the Akan, that's where Akan originated from and most of the culture of Akan. The narrator goofed without mentioning Bono. It should be the first and foremost

Bono(Abron/Brong) is part of the Akan, that's where Akan originated from and most of the culture of Akan. The narrator goofed without mentioning Bono. It should be the first and foremost

Ashock

@@gloria7964 that is a lot .

Wher does it come from Smh.

@@akosuaagyeman8218 you will always have an Ewe claiming Kente came from them. They suffer so much from inferiority complex it's unbelievable

The Ewe's cousins in Togo and Benin do use kente. Accept the fact!

@@kwakuakonto8942 ewes cousins in Togo and Benin don't use kente so how come ewes in Ghana are the originators of kente. I suspect ewes might have learnt the kente weaving from the Ashantis

@@kwakuakonto8942 In Ewe, Ke means open and te means close, so ewes call it kete. Now tell me the meaning of kente in your Akan language. Inferiority complex my foot. If you don't know most Ewes see you guys as senseless braggarts. Go and find out why Ewes call you guys Ebluwo?

Bono(Abron/Brong) is part of the Akan, that's where Akan originated from and most of the culture of Akan. The narrator goofed without mentioning Bono. It should be the first and foremost

Yh there are their everywhere

@@stanzre no there is a different between being there and originally

@@joshuakotei6261 he said there are no Hausa in Ivory Coast .. didn’t say anything about originally

@@stanzre oh ok

Bono(Abron/Brong) is part of the Akan, that's where Akan originated from and most of the culture of Akan. The narrator goofed without mentioning Bono. It should be the first and foremost

@@asiedu_augustine that Akan label is not accepted by all supposed members though

@@stanzre Please I don't get your point, can you elaborate on it

Hausa are not Nigerian..

Nzemas are Guans their never part of the Akans

@@adamshafiza1057 They are Akan people. Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Nawuri and Ntsumburu these are Guan people

Yes there are

Yes they are.. what are u saying

Yeah there are... although it can be confusing because most tribe that come from other countries tend to learn Hausa and speak it like the thaime and some ewe

Who told you, masa you need to Research

Lol 🤣😆🤣

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@@niamtxiv But he’s right tho… The Akan did originate from ancient Egypt, our ancestors escaped to Ghana/IvoryCoast during the multiple invasions from Romans and Hyksos. You can’t be laughing at people while being ignorant on the subject😅

Exactly so. They are from Nigeria.

The Ga Tribe also 🤫

Can you expand ? Yeah they were born in America but why wouldn’t they still be considered Africans ? Genuinely asking.

@@shesfullofwisdomluv3764 It's not a matter of them just being born in America, The Facts are they were here long before anyone else. After the invasion of four countries dividing the land among themselves bring their religion putting people into servitude/enslavement they began to murdering out the people and their elders, stripping them of their languages culture, and heritages erasing and replacing with their own people setting up schools to teach them a false history of their version lying history they want them to believe and the rest of the world. the settlers enslaved the indigenous Americans in their own land they never came from Africa, not one indigenous American has a grandparent or a great, great grandparent that knows or remember anything about Africa or Africans, many Africans do not know anything about the Atlantic slave trade those that do will tell you they learned it from whites history. When I ask about the so-called enslaved dungeons on long the west coast I was told by Africans that it was for trading goods, not people. This is who they saw when they came to Turtle Island known as America. Columbus Himself According to renowned American historian and linguist Leo Weiner of Harvard University, one of the strongest pieces of evidence to support the fact that BLACK PEOPLE sailed to America before Christopher Columbus was a journal entry from Columbus himself. In Weiner’s book, “Africa and the Discovery of America,” he explains that Columbus noted in his journal that the Native Americans confirmed “black skinned people had come from the south-east in boats, trading in gold-tipped spears. Egyptian Artifacts in North America For years, Eurocentric archaeologists have largely turned the other cheek when it came to the discovery of artifacts from ancient Egypt being discovered in the Americas. According to Dr.David Imhotep, the author behind the book “The First Americans Were AFRICAN: Documented Evidence,” “Egyptian artifacts found across North America from the Algonquin writings on the East Coast to the artifacts and Egyptian place names in the Grand Canyon” are all signs of an early arrival in the Americas by AFRICANS. This is also paired with a much earlier account of BLACK PEOPLE with incredible skills at sea. Back in 445 B.C. THE GRAVES NEVER LIE IT'S THE LIVING THAT LIES Ancient African Skeletons Discovered in the New World There have been many instances of archaeologists discovering skulls and skeletons that they believed clearly belonged to people of African descent. Polish professor Andrzej Wiercinski revealed the discovery of African skulls at Olmec sites in Tlatilco, Cerro de las Mesas and Monte Alban. Even more ancient African skeletons that would clearly predate Columbus’ arrival in the Americas were discovered throughout Central America and South America with some even being unearthed in what is now California.

Aborigine one wow thanks so much for breaking it down. I definitely understand what you were saying and you said nothing but Truth here thanks for Sharing again . So true “The living lies “ So many points made Do you have any social media where you speak more on things?