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Experience with the Konkombas

“There are some things that never become clear until one has experienced them oneself,” writes Deacon John CUDJOE who spent his pastoral year at St. Charles Lwanga parish in Saboba, northern Ghana.

Saboba has a large population of Konkombas. “I wondered why the media and popular perception has portrayed the Konkombas of Northern Ghana so much on the negative… Gradually, I found some answers or rather asked better and more realistic questions…

Konkombas are not aliens in Ghana, nor a minority tribe. They are a very hardworking, practical and honest people who isolated themselves for reasons of farming and socio-political circumstances; and in the process have been neglected for far too long but are now becoming a force to reckon with.”

John organized his experiences in Soboba into a study paper titled: The influence of Perception on the Konkombas of Northern Ghana and the Challenge of Christianity. The study revealed that the Konkombas are the second largest tribe in the northern region of Ghana. They have been more receptive to Christianity than Islam.

Source: Arnoldus Nota