Salaga

Salaga is a town and is the capital of East Gonja district, a district within the Northern Region of north Ghana. Salaga has a 2012 agreement populace of 25,472 people. In the eighteenth and 19th centuries, Salaga served as a key market metropolis in particular for the busy nearby kola alternate and controlling Salaga gave a monopoly over exchange to the North and change to the South.

Situated in the southernmost reaches of the Sahel, Salaga become called "the Timbuktu of the south" for its cosmopolitan population and varied trade. Gonja, a powerful warrior nation, ruled Salaga and numerous other cities. However, Salaga being a sophisticated town changed into inhabited by the indigenous Gonja in addition to Hausas, Wangaras, Dagombas, Gurmas and other groups from the place. Salaga became crucial to the emergence of the Zabarima as a power within the area that is now northern Ghana, while the scholar Alfa Hano and the warrior Gazari migrated right here from their former houses south-east of Niamey in the 1860s.