Telania is an indigenous town in
Navrongo
Navrongo is a town and the capital of Kassena-Nankana Municipal District in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana, adjacent to the border with Burkina Faso.
Navrongo is an important market town, known for its cathedral and its grotto. It hou ...
, Northern
Ghana
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. The natives inhabited the area before the arrival of the other surrounding towns in the municipality.
It is believed the ancestor of the Telania's first lived in a sacred hole in the ground and later commanded his people to move out of the hole and stay on the surface as seen today.
The Telanias are the landholders(Tega-tiina) and leases portions to the abutting communities.
The natives have rich culture.
Populated places in the Upper East Region
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