Yendi

Yendi is a town in the Northern Region of Ghana, the traditional capital of the Kingdom of Dagbon and the administrative centre of the Yendi Municipal District. Its Dagbani name, Yani, means seat of the Yaa Naa, the king of Dagbon, who is based here in Ghana's oldest kingdom. King Nyaɣisi is said to have built the town between 1420 and 1500. It was left empty after an invasion by Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa of Gonja, which killed the Dagbon king Dariziogo, and the Asante Empire conquered it under Opoku Ware I in 1744 or 1745, although scholars dispute this. The German Empire took it into Togoland in 1901, and the Ya Na resumed control after Britain seized Togoland in the First World War. The 2021 census counted 154,421 people. A trade school opened in Yendi in 1922.