Fada N'gourma

The Gurma kingdom lay in eastern Burkina Faso and traced its foundation to Diaba Lompo in the early thirteenth century. Its early rulers held court at Pama, before Nungu became their capital.

Yandabili, the fourteenth successor of Diaba Lompo, ruled from 1709 to 1736. He founded Nungu and moved the capital there from Pama; the name meant the land of the Nanumba in Gourmantché. The Gurma kingdom retained its own kings on the eastern edge of the Mossi world.