Bilanga

Bilanga lies north of Fada N’Gourma in the savanna country of the Gourmantché. It was the seat of a chiefly lineage counted among the regional powers of Gulmu, the wider Gourma political world. Traditions connect these ruling houses to the descendants of Diaba Lompo, the remembered founder of the kingdom. Villages around Bilanga combined cultivation with the use of seasonal pasture, while their chiefs maintained relationships with other courts across the eastern Volta basin.