Boundiali

Boundiali lies in Senufo country in the savanna of northern Côte d’Ivoire. Local tradition recalls Ganon Nambaga, a hunter from Tioro, as the founder of the settlement. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Malinke traders and religious figures came to the region from places including Odienné, Kankan and Ségou. Their commerce and Islamic learning contributed to the meeting of Senufo and Mandé traditions in the country around Boundiali.