Old indigenous strains of the region are mixed in a first-time
immigrants Gurma, from the eastern part of the Niger Bend,
between Ouagadougou and Niamey, which brought into the political
chiefdoms. In this structure, traders and craftsmen Sudan (the Mandinka,
from historic Mali) and Hausa added from the 16th century a
dynamic force, which will be the success of the city: Islam, and with it the
sense of cases related to trade
