The Nanumba people are an ethnic group whose traditional homeland is in the southeast of the Northern Region of Ghana.

Published references include quoted statements of Mampruli speakers: Ti ŋmampurisi, Yooba, Naanumma ni Moosi piiligu nyɛ la Kyama maa "The origin of us Mamprusi, Dagomba and Nanumba was in Chama",[3] Ti zaa nyɛ la yimmu "We are all one.

The leopard is the emblem of the area, and the seat of the Bimbilla Naa is called the Gmantambo Palace.

The Nanumba have a particularly close relationship with the Dagomba, but the larger group have rarely exercised direct power over them.

[9] In modern Ghana there is a House of Chiefs where traditional matters have a forum at the level of the nation state.