Nandom

Nandom is the capital town of the Nandom Municipal District in the Upper West Region of Ghana, about eight kilometres east of the Volta River, which forms the border with Burkina Faso. The town and the villages around it are home to the Dagara people, who speak the Lobr dialect of a dialect continuum that includes the Dagaare spoken further south around Jirapa and Nadowli. Nandom was part of the Lawra-Nandom District until it became a district in its own right in 2012 and a municipality in 2020. Its stone Catholic church, built with local labour after the arrival of the Missionaries of Africa in the 1930s, was once the largest Christian church in West Africa. A Muslim community, largely Mossi settlers from Burkina Faso, lives in the middle of the town. Nandom Senior High School, a technical school and a vocational school for girls provide secondary education.