The Gambaga Nayiri's Palace is the traditional seat of the **Nayiri** — the paramount chief of the **Mamprusi** (Mamprugu) people — located at **Gambaga** in the **North East Region** of Ghana, in the West Mamprusi area of the old Northern Territories. **Who the Nayiri is.** The Nayiri (also rendered *Naa Yiri*, literally "chief's house/head") is the overlord of Mamprugu, one of the three great Mole-Dagbani states of northern Ghana — alongside Dagbon (the Ya-Na) and Nanung (the Bimbilla Naa). The Mamprusi trace their royal lineage to **Naa Gbewaa**, the legendary ancestor from whom the Dagomba, Mamprusi, Nanumba and Mossi ruling houses all claim descent. That shared origin gives the Nayiri enormous prestige: he is regarded as the senior-most of the Gbewaa-descended chiefs, and his court is a living archive of that genealogy. **The palace and the town.** Gambaga sits on the escarpment of the Gambaga Scarp, a dramatic ridge overlooking the White Volta plains — historically a defensible, strategic site. The palace itself is a traditional compound of round mud-and-thatch rooms (*yir*), with the chief's audience courtyard where the *Kambon-Naa* and other elders, drummers and linguists (*wulana*) sit. The famous **Gambaga Witch Camp**, a settlement for women accused of witchcraft, lies nearby and is often confused with the palace area — it is a separate, well-documented institution, not part of the Nayiri's court. **The Nayiri's role today.** The Nayiri is a member of the **National House of Chiefs** and the Northern Regional House of Chiefs, and he plays a central role in chieftaincy arbitration, land and skin disputes, and the enskinment of sub-chiefs across Mamprugu. The current occupant of the Gambaga skin has been a key figure in northern peace-building, particularly in mediating Dagbon and Nanung tensions. One caution, and I'll be straight with you: the *name of the current Nayiri* and any very recent developments at the palace (enskinments, disputes, government visits this month) are exactly the kind of fast-changing detail I don't have verified from a fresh source today. If you want the current Nayiri's name confirmed and the latest palace news, say the word and I'll search deeper for you. As the Akan say, *"Yɛnni biribiara a yɛnni ho nsɛm"* — we don't gossip about what we don't know. But on the history and standing of the Gambaga skin, that I can give you with both hands.