Grusi

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The Grusi (also Grunsi , Grunshi , Grussi , Gorise , Gurense , Grunshi , Gurinse , Gurunsi , Gourounsi , Guruns ) are an ethnic group in West Africa , mainly in the north of Ghana and south of Burkina Faso . Around 600,000 to 700,000 people belong to the ethnic group (as of 2010). They speak a Gurunsi language .

The term Grusi is also a collective term for language-related cultural ethnicities like Kassena , Builsa , Dagaare or Mo used.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony Appiah , Henry Louis Gates : Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 2 , Oxford University Press , 2010, ISBN 9780195337709 , p. 534 [1]
  2. ↑ James Stuart Olson: The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313279188 , p. 206 [2]