The Kusasis-A Short Histroy (2)

During the past thirty years all these Chiefs
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inoluding those made by the Germans in the ' Mandated Area
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nave oonsolidated their positions, and, most important of
of all, eaoh one was allowe4 to be absolutely independent
of every bOdy else.
The Chief of Bawlru has perhaps been more in the
'ltaelight than the others, but he never had any authority
over them, with the exoeptionof Buguri and Kagbiri, who
originally removed from Bawlru and eleoted to remain under
the Chief of Bawku when founding settlements of their own
in the bush.
Though. separated from him. by the
international frontier for a time they were restored to
him at the end of the war.
Naturally with the settling of the country, and the
opening up of it, there has been more ooming and going
between the various villages t han was ever droamt of
before.
It was not diffioult t o make the Chiefs and
people realize the advantages to be obtained i f t hey
united under a Tribal Chief, and this oulminabed last
/year in the unanimous eleotion of the Chief of Bawku to
the position. ao he was confirmed in the office by ~0