The Tenhé Tribe is a small tribe located in the Savannah region of northeast Ivory Coast and southwest Burkina Faso. They are believed to come originally from southern Ivory Coast (having fled the region for ethnic conflicts) and are related to the Lorbon people, speaking a dialect of the Koulango language, a Niger-Congo language of Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Most members of the Tenhé Tribe are subsistence farmers who struggle to eke out a living. The recent civil wars and the ethnic and political turmoil in Ivory Coast have put further pressure in the lives of the Tenhé people. Most of these communities lack access to basic services such as healthcare, education, access to utilities as the provision of the services by the government, which has little operating capacity, is almost non-existent.

This coin issue is a way to raise funds for these communities and a significant part of the proceeds will go to local charity projects.

The Bakyiele people (of the Brifo family) are believed to have hailed from Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire. With varied backgrounds, the Brifo are sparsely located around the boundaries of Upper West Region and Northern Region of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire.

One of the major settlements of the Brifo tribe is Da-eyiri, also known as Janselee, it was founded by Da-e, a farming settler about three decades ago. Da-eyiri is one of the fastest growing Brifo communities in the Wa West district of the Upper West Region of Ghana. The community is located between Nahaa in the Wa West and Logu in the Wa East districts. Da-eyiri is blessed with excellent architectural designs and earth ware pots which could serve as tourist attractions.

Agriculture is their mainstream economic activity with emphasis on food cropping, piggery, and poultry rearing. Pottery and basket weaving are other economic ventures they engage in, especially the women. While official currency exist in the tribe (Souma is their traditional currency), barter system of trade as well as the use of cowries for customary and business activities is common practices among the Brifos.

The people of Da-Eyiri are hard-working yet they lack a lot of basics in life. They are being confronted by issues like child labor, teenage marriages, high school drop outs – especially among girls –, a rampant rural-urban drift among boys, violations of women rights, and limited access to health and educational facilities. Most of these drawbacks have customary undertones. For instance, girls are married out for cattle, and women are much seen and treated as estates than human beings.

Bougri is a traditional festival celebrated among the Brifo people and it comes of around March-April each year.