Gambaga is the capital of the East Mamprusi Municipal Assembly in the North East Region of

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

. Once a residence of Mamprusi-kings it is still the capital of East Mamprusi Municipal Assembly, a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the North East Region of

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It is home to several ancient Mossi chiefs' gravesites. From 1901 until 1957 Gambaga served as the capital of the

Northern Territories of the Gold Coast The Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, commonly known as the Northern Territories, was a British protectorate in Africa from 1901 until 1957."The Location of Administrative Capitals in Ashanti, Ghana, 1896-1911" by R. B. Bening in ''The Int ...

, which was a

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and a separate jurisdiction from the Gold Coast. Gambaga, along with other places in Ghana, is the site of a camp for alleged witches. A 2011 documentary film directed by

Yaba Badoe Yaba Badoe (born 1954) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. Career Yaba Badoe was born in 1954 in Tamale, northern Ghana. She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age.Beti Ellerson"A Conversatio ...

is entitled ''

The Witches of Gambaga ''The Witches of Gambaga'' is a Ghanaian 2011 documentary film directed by Yaba Badoe and produced by Amina Mama. Plot Women of various communities are accused of being witches by their families and how they fight the struggle of their society ...

''.

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Populated places in the Northern Region (Ghana) {{NorthernRegionGH-geo-stub