Gwiriko

Gwiriko was a Dyula kingdom on the upper Mouhoun in southwestern Burkina Faso, with its chief town at Sya, later called Bobo-Dioulasso. In 1337 the kingdom had not yet emerged in the region.

Sya grew from a settlement founded by Bobo farmers and traders in the fifteenth century. Around 1714 Sékou Ouattara sent his brother Famagan from Kong into the Mouhoun bend; his men conquered Sya in the late 1730s. After Sékou died around 1740, Famagan allied with the Bobo-Dioula and became independent. By the 1830s subject peoples were breaking away from his descendants' kingdom.