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Bono

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c. 1450 - 1723
Related Topics:
mining
gold
Related Places:
Ghana
Akan states
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Bono, Akan state of western Africa from the 15th to the 18th century, located between the forests of Guinea and the savannas of the Sudan in what is now Brong-Ahafo region in the Republic of Ghana. Bono was probably founded about 1450, and its rise was undoubtedly connected with the developing gold trade of Bighu, a Malian Muslim or Dyula commercial centre 40 miles (64 km) to the northwest. From there Muslim traders went to Bono soon after its foundation, and many members of the royal household were later converted to Islam. The kings of Bono are said to have ...(100 of 205 words)

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