YENENGA THE PRINCESS OF GAMBAGA

A HISTORICAL AND A NARRATIVE PLAY

WRITTEN BY SULEIMAN ABDALLAH

Many years in the history of the Mole –Dagbon, there was a polygamist

king Naa Gbewa also called Naaba Nedega whose ancestry traces to the red hunter

Tohazie. Naa Gbewa had hundredths of children and grandchildren. One day in the ninth month, one of his youngest wives was in labor and there was a roaring storm howling and cuddling with the voice of a beautiful crying baby singing happiness. He thought of a son

but the wish of man is not the wish of the gods. Then was the Amazon wrapped with a piece

of cloth. The prowess Amazon now grew into a beautiful woman-like man. She had fought

all the battles of Naa Gbewa, her father, and conquered his enemies for him, but he dared

denied her of marriage to any man who asked of her in marriage. She then met Riale the

elephant hunter from Bouti in Boussanse of the upper-volta now Burkina Faso and its

capital Ougadugou. Their love was a limitless one. The two love birds met in the forest one

day and left for Bouti. Lets' go to Gambaga to see how it all began.