Yagbum

Yagbum was a city in what is now northern Ghana, near the Black Volta. Founded by the Ngbanya clan of Mande horsemen (c. 1600), Yagbum became the capital of their new Gonja kingdom.

References

• Ivor Wilks "Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries II: The Struggle for Trade." The Journal of African History 23:4 (1982): 463-472.