The Kusasi, Kusaasi, or the Kusaal people, are an ethnic group in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso. They speak the Kusaal language, which is a Gur language. [1]
The Kusaasi celebrate the Samanpiid Festival. [2] The festival is used to thank God for a bumper harvest during the farming season. [2] [3] The festival was first celebrated in 1987. [3]