Daboya

Daboya stands in Ghana's northern savannah, a flat grassland country suited to livestock and long-distance movement. The Dagomba people knew the town as Burugu, and its position on the road from Yendi to Bouna gave it importance within Dagbon. Salt became its special commodity, drawing traders through an otherwise broad and thinly settled landscape. That commercial role made Daboya a significant town rather than merely one village among many.

Political control changed late in the seventeenth century, when Gonja power reached the settlement. The Wasipewura established it as a border fortress to protect the new frontier against Dagomba, so trade and defence developed together. Gonja, Tampulma, Dagomba and Hanga people came to live in and around it. The town's name and history preserve the close links among savannah routes, forts and salt in northern Ghana.