Morondo

Morondo lies in the Worodougou country of northwestern Côte d’Ivoire, in a region of savanna and woodland north of Séguéla. Mandé-speaking communities and traders formed part of a wider network connecting the northern towns with the forests to the south. To the east, Kong developed into an important centre of commerce and Islamic learning; under Seku Ouattara in the eighteenth century its influence extended across much of the northern country.