Nafana

The Nafana are a Senufo people living in the central north-west of Ghana and the north-east of Côte d'Ivoire, in the area east of Bondoukou. They number about 45, 000 (SIL/GILLBT 1992) and speak Nafaanra, a Senufo language. They are surrounded by Gur speakers to the north, the isolated Mande-speaking Ligbi people to the east, and the Akan-speaking Abron to the south. The Nafana people relate that they come from Côte d'Ivoire, a village called Kakala. According to Jordan (1978), their oral histor...