Some of the Mande, who had stimulated…

Some of the Mande, who had stimulated the development of states in what is now northern Nigeria (the Hausa states and those of the Lake Chad area), move southwestward also in this same period, and impose themselves on many of the indigenous peoples of the northern half of modern Ghana and of Burkina Faso (Burkina—formerly Upper Volta), founding the states of Dagomba and Mamprusi.

The Mande also influence the rise of the Gonja state.