Mossi History

Background History of the Mossi States
The Mossi (or Moosi) migrated from somewhere east to the Volta Basin, south of the Niger
Bend in small groups, and dominated indigenous groups (Gurunsi, Fulse, Dagara, Kasena,
Lobi, Nuna, etc) either through conquest or peaceful integration. Many scholars trace the
foundation of the first Mossi states in the Voltaic region to the early fifteenth century. This
region refers to a geographical space stretching from northern Ghana into most of today’s
Burkina Faso. It comprised a number of more or less autonomous states loosely connected to
each other through genealogical ties; nineteen were identified at the beginning of the colonial
period (the late nineteenth century), on the Burkinabé side. The main Mossi states were
Ouagadougou, Yatenga, Tenkodogo and Fada N’Gourma. They constituted founding clusters
from which sprang smaller states, such as Yako, Busma, Bulsa, Conquiztenga, Tatenga,
Ratenga, Zitenga,and Mané. The Mossi states shared the same political structure based on a
‘model’ that first emerged in Mamprusi. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, this
state system which emerged from waves of migration from the Dagomba-Mamprusi area into
the Voltaic region displayed particularly interesting characteristics, which allow us to formulate
certain principles of state formation in West

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