Old Buipe

Old Buipe
District Capital
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Coordinates: 08°48′34″N01°33′35″W / 8.80944°N 1.55972°W / 8.80944; -1.55972
Country	Ghana
Region	Savannah Region
District	Central Gonja District
Population  (2013)
• Total	—
Time zone	GMT
• Summer (DST)	GMT

Old Buipe is a small town and archaeological site in the Central Gonja District, in the Savannah Region of northern Ghana.

Buipe was an important regional center and market for kola nuts in the 15th century, before Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa founded the Gonja kingdom. ^[1] According to oral tradition, Buipe was the site of the first mosque in the kingdom, and the residence of the first imams, as well as the Jakpa's burial place. ^{[2] [3]} It was an early rival to Yagbum for pre-eminence within Gonja. ^[1]

Most of the population of Old Buipe abandoned the site in the 1950s for nearby New Buipe. ^[4]

References

1. Jones, D. H. “JAKPA AND THE FOUNDATION OF GONJA.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, vol. 6, 1962, pp. 1–29. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41405749. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
2. Shinnie Peter Lewis. Archaeology in Gonja, Ghana. In: 2000 ans d’histoire africaine. Le sol, la parole et l’écrit. Mélanges en hommage à Raymond Mauny. Tome I. Paris : Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 1981. pp. 65-70. (Bibliothèque d'histoire d'outre-mer. Études, 5-6-1) www.persee.fr/doc/sfhom_1768-7144_1981_mel_5_1_923
3. Massing, Andrew (2012). "Imams of Gonja The Kamaghate and the Transmission of Islam to the Volta Basin". Cahiers d'Études Africaines. 52 (205): 60. JSTOR   41446033 . Retrieved 24 May 2024.
4. Genequand, Denis & Apoh, Wazi & Gavua, Kodzo & Amoroso, Hugo & Hajdas, Irka & Maret, Fabien & de Reynier, Christian. (2016). Excavations in Old Buipe and Study of the Mosques of Bole (Ghana, Northern Region).