THE BATTLE OF ADIBO (BATTLE WITH THE GERMANS) (BY:DASANA PUKARIGA)

There is a popular date in the history of Dagbon that every son of Great Gbewaa knows.it is recalled by Dagbon drum historians as Adibo Dalle(The Day of Adibo) this was the day over a century ago in September 1896 when Dagbon fought a battle with Germans colonizers at Adibo,a village 10 kilometres south of Yendi.at the time the king who reigned was Yaa Naa Andani II(popularly called Andan Naanigoo) and he said that his kingdom Dagbon,would not be taken over by the white man and that he would protect it at all cost.but his kingdom was threaten by the European from all directions from the south by the Germans,from the west the British and the from the north by the french.in all Dagbon resisted colonialism for seven long years.

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