Old Buipe
District Capital in Savannah Region, Ghana
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Old Buipe is a small town and archaeological site in the Central Gonja District, in the Savannah Region of northern Ghana.
Old Buipe | |
|---|---|
District Capital | |
  Old Buipe Location of Old Buipe in Savannah Region  Old Buipe Old Buipe (Africa) | |
| Coordinates: 08°48′34″N 01°33′35″W | |
| Country | Ghana |
| Region | Savannah Region |
| District | Central Gonja District |
| Population (2013) | |
• Total | — |
| Time zone | GMT |
| • Summer (DST) | GMT |
Buipe was an important regional center and market for kola nuts in the 15th century, before Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa founded the Gonja kingdom.[1] According to oral tradition, Buipe was the site of the first mosque in the kingdom, and the residence of the first imams, as well as the Jakpa's burial place.[2][3] It was an early rival to Yagbum for pre-eminence within Gonja.[1]
Most of the population of Old Buipe abandoned the site in the 1950s for nearby New Buipe.[4]