Kusasi people

The Kusasi people (var. Kusaasi) are an ethnic group in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso. They speak Kusaal, a Gur language.^[1]

Festival

The Kusasi people celebrate the Samanpiid Festival.^[2] The festival is one that is used to thank God for a bumper harvest during the farming season.^[2]^[3] The festival was first celebrated in 1987.^[3]

References

↑ Kusaal language. Ethnologue.com.
1 2 "Rawlings calls for cabinet reshuffle". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
1 2 "Mahama's appointees not correct - Rawlings". myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 30 December 2013.

Kusasi, Eastern of Ghana. Joshua Project. Page Last Modified: 28-May-2009.
Ghana: Kusasi Opinion Leaders Attribute Recent Violence in Bawku to Armed Robbers. Baba Kofi Yaro, Public Agenda (Accra) 8 May 2009.
The Peoples Of Northern Ghana. National Commission On Culture of the government of Ghana.
Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention. Carola Lentz, Paul Nugent Eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 ISBN 0-312-22405-2 pp. 57–67

Ethnic groups in Burkina Faso

Bissa Bobo Bwa Dagaaba Djimini Dyula Fula Fulse Gouin Gurma Gurunsi Iwellemmedan Jakhanke Kassena Kusasi Lobi Mandinka Mossi Senufo Soninke Turka Yarse Zarma

Ethnic groups in Ghana

Indigenous	Abidji Abron Agave Ahafo Ahanta Akyem Anlo Ewe Anyi Assin Avatime Bimoba Bissa Chumburu Dagaaba Dagomba Dyula Efutu Evalue Ewe Fante Frafra Ga-Adangbe Gonja Guang Gurunsi Jakhanke Karamogo Kassena Konkomba Krobo Kusasi Kyode Logba Mamprusi Nafana Nzema Tallensi Tem Tshi Wala Yeji

Non-indigenous	Hausa Yoruba Mossi Zarma Soninke African-Americans Arabs Chinese Indians Tabom

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