Kandi

Kandi is a town of the Borgu country, where Baatombu and Mokole communities meet in the northern savanna. It became the seat of a kingdom associated with Nikki, one of the major centers of the Wasangari ruling families. Local accounts remember an older Mokole settlement at Kandi before the arrival of these nobles. In the first half of the eighteenth century, Wasangari migrants from Nikki established themselves as a ruling group at Kandi and nearby Guéné, forming one of several smaller states linked to the older Borgu kingdoms.