Category:Nankanse

The Nankanse (also Nakanni) are a people in the North and Northeast of Ghana.

- other name variants:

• own name: Gurense (=Plural; Singular: Gurena, Gurina, Gourounga), the "Gurunsi", "Grunshi" or similar in the early colonial literature

but: Gurense has in the language of their neighbours the meaning "dog meat eater" (analogue to "kaffir" in Arabian) so that this name is not more in use.

• alternative name in the colonial time: Frafra (from "fura fura" = "Hello, how are you?" as well as "Thank you" in the language of the Nankanse)
• name from the neighbouring Kassena: Nankanse (=Plural; Singular: Nankarena; with the meaning "Nankane-speakers")

- neighbours: Kassena, Tallensi (sometime also called "Frafra", because they speak the same language, however, with another dialect), Mamprussi

- subcategorisations: Bura (=Plural; Singular: Bute) = totemistic, patrilinear clans; The Nankanse are composed of 26 Bura.

- title of the political leader: "Tendana" (Chief of all Nankanse); "Na" or "Naa" (Chief on local level); The same titles have the Tallensi too.

("Na" as title or name suffix is customary in Ghana and Burkina Faso and means literal "grand-father", "family oldest", "family chief", "clan chief" or similar.)