Gidajen Zongo

Gidajen Zongo yankuna ne a garuruwan Yammacin Afirka waɗanda yawancin baƙi ne daga yankunan savannah na arewa da Sahel na Yammacin Afrịka,  musamman daga Nijar da arewacin Najeriya. 

Abubuwan da aka saba amfani da su na al'ummomin Zongo sune amfani da Harshen Hausa a matsayin harshen magana da kuma addinin da suka raba: Islama .  Sunan waɗannan unguwanni na baƙi a matsayin Zongos ya samo asali ne daga kalmar Hausa zango wanda a zahiri ke nufin "wurin sansani don cinikayya". Kamar yadda sunan ya nuna, an kafa zongos ne a matsayin wuraren kasuwanci a cikin hanyoyin kasuwanci na nesa waɗanda suka haɗa yankin Yammacin Afirka.

 Ghana 
Gabaɗaya ana kiransu Zongos, ana samun al'ummomin zongo a duk yankuna 16 na Ghana tare da yawan jama'a a Greater Accra da Yankin Ashanti.

Al'ummomin zongo na farko a Ghana sun fara ne a Salaga, kuma a farkon kwata na karni na 19 an riga an kafa irin waɗannan al'ummomin a Tamale, Yeji da Ejisu. Mafi girma kuma daya daga cikin tsofaffin zongos kusa da belin bakin teku ya fara ne a 1810 a Ushertown (Zangon Mallam ko Zongo-Lane na yanzu) kafin a sake su a Sabon Zango sannan Nima (1836). 

A halin yanzu, al'ummomin zongo a Ghana ƙananan mutane ne daga ƙasa da matsakaici daga arewaci da kudancin Ghana da kuma baƙi daga kasashe makwabta da suka hada da Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, da Togo.

Hausa daga arewacin Najeriya da Kudancin Nijar sune mazauna farko na zongos. Mutanen da suka fara zama sun gina gidaje na wucin gadi tare da niyyar yin aiki tuƙuru, tara wasu kudade kuma su koma yankinsu. Kamar yadda yawanci yake tare da shige da fice, mutane da yawa sun karɓi sabon wurin da suka samu a matsayin gidansu na dindindin.

 Benin 
Al'ummomin Zongo sun zama ruwan dare a Benin tare da manyan ƙauyuka da aka samu a Parakou, Ganou da tashar jiragen ruwa ta Cotonou . 

 Dubi kuma 

 Mutanen Zongo na Ghana
 Sabon Zango
 Dan Arewa (Ghana)

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