The Ngbanya expanded rapidly, conquering several neighbors in the White Volta valley and beginning a profitable gold trade with the Akan states through nearby Begho. By 1675, the Gonja established a paramount chief, called the Yagbongwura, to control the kingdom. The Ngbanya dynasty has controlled this position from its founding to the present day, with only two brief interregnums. The current Yagbongwura, Tuntumba Sulemana Jakpa Bore Essa, has held his position since 2010. Gonja chiefs and elders at the Volta River project travelling exhibition(1950) Precolonial Gonja society was stratified into castes, with a ruling class, a Muslim trader class, an animist commoner class, and a slave class. Its economy depended largely on trade in slaves from Central AfricaThe Evolution of War: A Study of Its Role in Early SocietiesBy Maurice R. Davie  and kola nuts, particularly through the market town of Salaga, sometimes called the "Timbuktu of the South." References Jack Goody, "The social organisation of the LoWiili", Oxford University Press, 1956 Jack Goody, The Ethnology of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, West of the White Volta, 1958 Jack Goody, Death, Property and the Ancestors: A study of the mortuary customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1962 Jack Goody and J.A. Braimah, "Salaga: The Struggle for Power", London, Longmans, 1967 Jack Goody, The Myth of the Bagre, Oxford University Press, 1972 Goody, Esther and Jack Goody. "The Circulation of Women and Children in Northern Ghana." Man, New Series. 2.2 (1967): 226-248. Wilks, Ivor. "Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries II: The Struggle for Trade." Journal of African History '' 23:4 (1982): 463-472.
The Ngbanya expanded rapidly, conquering several neighbors in the White Volta valley and beginning a profitable gold trade with the Akan states through nearby Begho. By 1675, the Gonja established a paramount chief, called the Yagbongwura, to control the kingdom. The Ngbanya dynasty has controlled this position from its founding to the present day, with only two brief interregnums. The current Yagbongwura, Tuntumba Sulemana Jakpa Bore Essa, has held his position since 2010. Gonja chiefs and elders at the Volta River project travelling exhibition(1950) Precolonial Gonja society was stratified into castes, with a ruling class, a Muslim trader class, an animist commoner class, and a slave class. Its economy depended largely on trade in slaves from Central Africa<ref>The Evolution of War: A Study of Its Role in Early Societies' by Maurice R. Davie </ref> and kola nuts, particularly through the market town of Salaga, sometimes called the "Timbuktu of the South." References Jack Goody, "The social organisation of the LoWiili", Oxford University Press, 1956 Jack Goody, The Ethnology of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, West of the White Volta, 1958 Jack Goody, Death, Property and the Ancestors: A study of the mortuary customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1962 Jack Goody and J.A. Braimah, "Salaga: The Struggle for Power", London, Longmans, 1967 Jack Goody, The Myth of the Bagre, Oxford University Press, 1972 Goody, Esther and Jack Goody. "The Circulation of Women and Children in Northern Ghana." Man, New Series. 2.2 (1967): 226-248. Wilks, Ivor. "Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries II: The Struggle for Trade." Journal of African History 23:4 (1982): 463-472.
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