Yakubu I

{{short description|King of Dagbon in northern Ghana in the early 19th century}}

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Ya Naa Yakubu (Yakuba) I was Ya-Na, or king, of the Kingdom of Dagbon in northern Ghana. He ruled between {{circa|1829}} and c. 1849,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrbIw2eYVM4C&q=darimani+dagbon&pg=PA205|title=An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts: Towards a Sustainable Peace : Key Aspects of Past, Present and Impending Conflicts in Northern Ghana and the Mechanisms for Their Address|last=Awedoba|first=A. K.|date=2010-01-01|publisher=African Books Collective|isbn=9789988647384|pages=205|language=en}} however other sources put his reign roughly between c. 1799 and c. 1839.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1ZfDQAAQBAJ&q=darimani+andani&pg=PT22|title=Re-Thinking Values in Africa: For Collective Wellbeing|last=Kuyini|first=Bawa|date=2013-07-22|publisher=BookBaby|isbn=9781922204882|language=en}}