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 Salaga is the capital of its East Gonja District, Northern region of Ghana

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Salaga is a town in Ghana's Northern Region and the capital of its East Gonja District.

Visitors to Salaga today can still see

the pond known as Wonkan bawa

(Hausa for "the bathing place of a slave")

and a young baobab tree

on the site of the old slave market.

 

Salaga

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Salaga served as a key market town of the Ashanti kingdom,
particularly for the busy regional slave trade and kola trade with the Mossi and Gonja kingdoms.
The city was sometimes referred to as "the Timbuktu of the south" for its cosmpolitan population and varied trade.
Like many market towns of the time, Salaga's ethnic groups divided into separate wards.
 
Estimates of its population in these years range from 20,000 to 50,000, with the Hausa language serving as a lingua franca.
Muslims formed the most dominant religious group, though many residents retained animist beliefs as well.

DISTRICTS ( 1 MB )

 

Salaga in PICTURES ( SOON )

NORTHERN REGION


Tamale Muncicipal District , - TAMALE + IMAGE

Central Gonja District , - BUIPE + IMAGE

Chereponi District , - Chereponi (new)

West Gonja District , - DAMONGO

East Gonja District , - SALAGA

Tolon/Kumbungu District , - TOLON

Savelugu/Nanton District , - SAVELUGO + IMAGE

Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District , - SAWLA

Bole District , - BOLE

Karaga District , - KARGA

Kpandai District , - Kpandai

Yendi Municipal District , - YENDI

Nanumba North District , - BIMBILLA

Nanumba South District , - WULENSI

Zabzugu/Tatale District , - ZABZUGU

Saboba/Chereponi District , - SABOBA

Gushiegu District , - GUSHIEGU

East Mamprusi District , - GAMBAGA

Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District , - BUNKPURUGU

West Mamprusi District, - WALEWALE + IMAGE

 

 

 

With the 1874 British defeat of the Ashanti,

the Gonja population of Salaga revolted, killing hundreds of the Ashanti.

 

The violence resulted in an immediate decline in trade, which would be further devastated by a 1892 civil war.

 

At this time, Britain and Germany had become the key European powers in the area, each supporting a rival candidate in the conflict; Britain seized the city directly in 1897.

By 1900, the city served only as a zongo, a rest stop for caravans.


 

                     

 


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  •    Schools in Salaga

 

 

Salaga Junior Secondary School
Salaga Secondary
Salaga Secondary Technical