KNOW GHANA BETTER WITH HUNIAH TETTEH

THE EFUTUS ( Article directly sourced from the book KNOW GHANA BETTER written by Huniah Tetteh ) The Efutu ancestors lived with the Ga people when the others had left for the mountains. With time, their dialect was fading away as they became bilingual Ga and Efutu speakers and most of them alternated for the Ga language. The Ga people were confused about the type of language they were speaking. It seemed to be a mixture of languages. Also they had mixed up with the Ga people hence the name “Efutu” which means “mixed-up” in the Ga language. The Efutu learnt fishing and after some years of living with the Ga-Dangmes, they decided to leave to a desolate land where they can salvage their language which had broken down into dialects. The only surviving speakers were few so they had to divide themselves into groups. They elected a land they had previously settled on during their migration as Shuoyis to Ayawaso. So they set off to the previous place where they had temporally settled when

                                                                                                                (At the Tamale-Gurugu fire festival) The Gurs migrated from several places. They are found within the Northern parts of Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast. In Burkina Faso, they form the majority of the people. The Mossi language is the most widely spoken Gur language in Burkina Faso. They speak different but related languages. Their languages extend as far as into all the neighbouring countries bordering Ghana. Most of their languages are not well known and called small languages because they are spoken in very small towns with very few populations including Kamara, Vagla, Safalba, Templima, Birifor, Lobi, Nankani, Deg, Ntrubo, Chala, Hanga etc. Further studies about this group of people will be dealt with in subsequent topics . We shall be taking the tribes under this ethnic group and study their histories. The Gur could be further divided into three main