Mamprugu

Mamprugu was a Mamprusi kingdom in the savanna of what is now north-eastern Ghana. Founded by Naa Gbewaa in the thirteenth century, it traced its ruling line to his shrine at Pusiga.

The Nayiri ruled through hereditary skins held by male descendants of the founding line, with Gambaga and later Nalerigu as chief seats. In the seventeenth century Dyula merchants helped spread Islam among the Mamprusi, although worship of the sky god Naa-wuni remained widespread.