Place · river

Black Volta

Also known as Mouhoun

The Black Volta, or Mouhoun, is a river of West Africa that rises in western Burkina Faso, forms part of the borders of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and joins the White Volta in Ghana to form the Volta. Trade routes linking the gold and kola forests to the Niger crossed it, and states such as Kong, Buna and Wa grew along its course.

Black Volta
Image: Marco Schmidt [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 4 state histories

Kingdom of BunaWala StateKong EmpireKingdom of Gwiriko

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Black Volta. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/black-volta
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