The Kusasis-A Short Histroy (2)

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vi.Yangas, andilokambo is composed largely ot Btmobas.~~t with these newcomers spreading themselveaevery whf?l'8.. in addition to the earlier penetretionot Nabnambas, Narambas, and others.. alread1mentioned,?becomas obvious that there 1sdifficulty in finding a typiaal Kusasi in Agolleat all, if one disoounts the reoent imm1grantefrom Toendema/who in the last tan years haveorossed the Volta in great numbers.
CHAPTER. 1HISTORICAL.When writing ot the. Kusasia one has torememb8l' tha~ the name Kusasi is really ~ry vague whenreferring to the people of !golle, and not alwaya aor~eo.teven in the case ot Toendema.For it is aonstantly useda.1-to inalude people who aI'evtrue Kusasia at all. ~e . tribewas originally quite small, and it 1s only in aOInparativeJ.yrecent years that a large population has grown upconsisting of people known as Kusasis.Actually a verylarge proportion of these people are the dasaebdants ofunions between Kusasia and imported slaves, male and female·Others are the descendants of Moshi, Grunshi andB'moba ~anta (to mention a few only) who have aome in:,Q IJA (lat different timea in sUClh of better lands than their own,and who tor generatiOns have intemarried with the Kusa.sia ..Strangely enough ~twas during the raids of Barbatu andhis predece $sors. ,:wong the Kassana,Bu11sa and Sissale.tribea that the Kusasia prospefed ~ost in the matter otalavea.Though they had attacked frQDl the East in earlierdays. the Bazaberimiea never arossed the led Volta from the! 0II~'v
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Page 29 and 30: The Manis, on the other hand, take
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50.immediately and taka char~e.He a
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52..home and have lived in or near
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54.and much drinking of Peto takes
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KUlba became Na~and installed 1aham
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58.people were killed.The fleeing i
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60. .ltlOshia oame into Bawku. and
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64.Bli~DURl."(''''''''''''''~/Th~st
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66.the Bazaberimies. were. sure to
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J..a.ny of them were followers of ~
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]0.proper wah 1a where the family o
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12..Al'ami ldampruss1, but it retur
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14.Kurugu, however twas not finishe
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Nothing alsa is known until the Com
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tne war. '~hen the bbWldary was IIl
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frClll. among themsel vas. for Toen
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Z 0 N G 0 I R I.The Zongoiri people
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84.longoiri ia not a Hausa town at
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86.WIDINABAAs mentioned 1n the Kusa
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88 ..B I NAB A.The Bimba-Kusasis, w
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9Q.of some oonseCl..uance in Bindur
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';)c..Kugri news or the ooming war.
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94.opportuni ty of taking his reven
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'm;IP Al~SAfELLIGA, BUGUR!. KAONRT.
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A lear or so atter this a man named
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~ooproteot him from the people, and
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lO,-a felt old people to-day who kn
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