Wagadugu

Wagadugu was a Mossi kingdom on the upper Volta, ruled from the town of the same name. Its dynasty traced its origins to Oubri; Mossi horsemen seized the town in the fourteenth century.

Mossi raiders attacked Walata and Timbuktu in the fifteenth century. Askia Muhammad defeated them in 1497 but did not displace their ancestral religion. After Songhai fell to Morocco in 1591, Wagadugu became fully independent. Its regional trade grew in the eighteenth century, and its capital gained a first mosque in the early nineteenth century.