Paga

Paga lies in the northern Ghanaian savanna, among Kassena communities whose settlements and family ties extend into what is now Burkina Faso. Farming and the seasonal cycle of rain shaped life across this region. Local tradition tells that a hunter named Naveh, saved by a crocodile, later settled at Paga; the account dates its foundation to around 1400.

The surrounding savanna connected communities with neighbouring political centres and routes between the Sahel and the forest zones to the south. Exchanges across this wider region brought different peoples into contact, while local institutions and traditions continued to shape community life.