Sumalia Ndewura Jakpa

Sumalia Ndewura Jakpa (flourished 17th century) was an African king who founded a dynasty in Gonja, in what is now northern Ghana, in the early 17th century. Originally a Mande invader, Jakpa established a loosely knit federation of states that extended over the entire northern part of present-day Ghana and parts of Togo and Benin. Jakpa’s invasion of Ghana was probably the result of a dispute within an Islāmic force (of which he himself was...