Bonos used the gold dust as a measure of currency in Bonoman and at the various market centres of Djenne, Timbuktu, and North Africa.

Bono people were dexterously noted for brass casting, weaving of cloth (gagawuga, kyenkyen, and kente), pottery and so on.

Around 1471, when the Portuguese arrived at the Gold Coast, Begho of Bonoman was one of the largest ancient cities in West Africa with an estimated population 12,000.

Bono Manso, another historic city, played a noteworthy role in the Atlantic slave trade, and in contemporary times, diaspora Africans often visit to learn more about their history.

Due to the imposition on them of another practice, they fled to the southern part of the Black Volta river and the tropical forest of central Ghana in order to maintain their Bono Ancestral worship and spirituality.

According to oral tradition, a moiety of Bonos emerged from a hole called Amonwi cave due to an earthquake at Pinihini near Fiema in Nkoransa state, and converged with the former group at thither.

The queenmother is always seen as the daughter of the moon by Bonos, who symbolizes the female characteristics of Nyame, the Supreme Being who created the universe by giving birth to the sun (Amowia).