Koudougou

Koudougou lies west of Ouagadougou in the Mossi country, on a plateau of cultivated savanna and seasonal watercourses. Mossi communities established local centres of authority among farming villages whose inhabitants drew on the land and the rains. The wider plateau was divided among kingdoms and chiefly territories, connected through royal lineages and sometimes separated by rivalry. Koudougou belongs to this western part of the Mossi political world, between Wogodogo and the lands of the Mouhoun.