Banikoara

Banikoara lies west of Kandi in the northern Borgu country. Its name, meaning “Bani's town” in the local language, recalls its founder Bani Gansé. The Baatombu communities of the region preserved a distinction between older inhabitants and the Wasangari dynasties that later established authority in surrounding places. These chiefs belonged to a wider world of related Borgu kingdoms, whose rulers traced their traditions through Nikki and Bussa.