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The Kusasi, Kusaasi, or the Kusaal people, are an ethnic group in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso. They speak the Kusaal language, which is a Gur language.^[1]

Festival edit

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

References edit

^ Kusaal language. Ethnologue.com.
^ ^a ^b "Rawlings calls for cabinet reshuffle". www.ghanaweb.com. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Mahama's appointees not correct - Rawlings". myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 30 December 2013.

External links edit

Kusaal, 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

[1] Kusaal language. Ethnologue.com.

[raw-2] "Rawlings calls for cabinet reshuffle". www.ghanaweb.com. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.

[omp-3] "Mahama's appointees not correct - Rawlings". myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 30 December 2013.

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