Talk:Yennenga

Is Yennega an alternate spelling/pronunciation?

Or is it a misspelling? 148.129.71.54 (talk) 19:03, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Unclear sentences

"She was a famous warrior precious for her father". What does this mean, exactly? Is "warrior precious" a title? Is there a comma missing somewhere?

I also think "considered the mother of the Mossi people" is in need of some clarification. I gather that "mother" here means something akin to "progenitor" or "originator", but it should be better corroborated, because the way it's stated now, it's using poetic language in an encyclopedic setting without expanding on it. Kumagoro-42 (talk) 23:50, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Was she a real person? If so, in what century was she born?

The opening phrase, "Yennenga (born 11th-15th century) was a legendary princess," is ambiguous, because of the word "legendary." Literally, "legendary" means that she was a legend rather than a real person, but, in popular use, "legendary" has come to mean famous; the headline of every news report of a pop singer's or Hollywood star's death refers to him or her as "legendary." This Wikipedia page reads as if she were a real person, stating, for example, "Yennenga was the daughter of Nedega and Napoko, king and queen in the early 12th century of the Kingdom of Dagbon, now in present day Ghana." But it would be unlikely not to know in which of four centuries a real person was born.

And that's another problem: If her parents ruled in the early 12th century, then she was born in the 12th century, or perhaps in the 11th century, before her parents ruled. But she couldn't have been born in the 13th, 14th, or 15th centuries. Maurice Magnus (talk) 12:09, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

I have edited the opening phrase to deal with the question of whether she was real and when she was born.