N'Gokro

N'Gokro lay in the Baoulé country of central Côte d'Ivoire, a forest-savanna belt where Baoulé lineages had settled after moving westward from the Akan lands in the eighteenth century. Villages farmed yams, cassava and maize, and were bound together by chiefs, lineage elders and shared markets. Connections to Akan goldfields and to the kola nut trade carried goods through the region.

The later city of Yamoussoukro lies here.