Kulango

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First called Dogambo are implanted in the northeast of the country, mainly in the Bonduku region, a city that seems to have been founded by them. They reach the border of Burkina Faso in the north and Ghana in the east, they are neighbours of the Lobiof the Senufo and of the Lorho. They seem to be implanted in the territory from the centuries XII or XIII, and although of voltaic origin as well as Lobi and the SenufoYou don't know exactly where they came from. Legend has it that they came out of a grotto, although they most likely came from the north. They are farmers and know how to extract gold, abundant in their lands. They maintain their independence for several centuries until in century XV, after receiving the pressure of the Diula, are subjected by the Abron, of origin AkanAnd they're forced to pay for a vassal. From animistic tradition many of them have been converted to Islam throughout the times. They worship ancestors and worship many deities of nature.

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