Pama

Pama lies in the southern Gourma country, amid wooded savanna and rivers flowing towards the Oti. Oral traditions associate it with Diaba Lompo, the ancestral founder of the Gourmantché kingdoms. One account places the beginning of his rule at Pama before the royal centre shifted north towards Nungu. Pama also had its own chiefly lineage, linked in local tradition to the founding dynasty. Its history belongs to a network of Gourmantché courts and farming communities across the eastern Volta basin.