Tondikandia

Tondikandia lies in the Zarma country east of the Niger, amid the dry plains of the Sahel. Oral traditions recount the arrival of Zarma communities from the southwest and their settlement among earlier inhabitants of the area. A local principality emerged among the Zarma communities, with its ruler bearing the title Zarmakoy. Its villages formed part of a wider landscape of cultivation and pasture, linked by kinship and political ties to other Zarma lands.