Qualla: Tenkodogo https://qualla.com/tenkodogo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/p/e/tenkodogo-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tenkodogo https://qualla.com/tenkodogo Tenkodogo: Introduction https://qualla.com/tenkodogo/ Photo credit kyselak, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name itself is a claim: Tenkodogo, in the Mooré language, means "ancient land." And the town earns it. Spread across the dry savanna of southeastern Burkina Faso, this market town of some 62,000 people is widely held to be the oldest of the Mossi kingdoms, the seed from which the others grew. According to Mossi tradition, a warrior named Ouédraogo founded the city around the year 1100, and from his descendants spread the dynasties that would rule much of the land between the rivers for the next eight centuries. Long before colonial maps drew Burkina Faso, there was Tenkodogo.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/p/e/tenkodogo-wp/efpe-tenkodogo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tenkodogo: The Root of Kingdoms https://qualla.com/tenkodogo/ Photo credit Christian COSTEAUX from FRANCE, CC BY 2.0. Every Mossi king can, in theory, trace his lineage back here. The founding story begins not with a man but with a woman: Yennenga, a legendary princess and warrior whose son Ouédraogo is remembered as the first to build at Tenkodogo. From his line came the rulers of Fada N'gourma...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/p/e/tenkodogo-wp/efpe-tenkodogo-the-root-of-kingdoms.mp3 0:06 2 full Tenkodogo: The Na-Yiri https://qualla.com/tenkodogo/ Photo credit Christian COSTEAUX from FRANCE, CC BY 2.0. At the heart of town, close by the market, stands the Palais Royal de Tenkodogo - known locally as the Na-Yiri, the "king's house." The institution it represents has outlasted empires. When King Naba Saga died in 2016, he was counted as the twenty-eighth king of Tenkodogo in the ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/p/e/tenkodogo-wp/efpe-tenkodogo-the-na-yiri.mp3 0:06 3 full Tenkodogo: Market Days https://qualla.com/tenkodogo/ Photo credit Christian COSTEAUX from FRANCE, CC BY 2.0. Life in Tenkodogo turns on a three-day rhythm. Every third day the main market fills - the Raaga, in Mooré, or the Daassi in the Bissa tongue spoken alongside it here, for this is a place where two peoples and two languages have long shared the same ground. Traders come in from t...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/p/e/tenkodogo-wp/efpe-tenkodogo-market-days.mp3 0:06 4 full Tenkodogo: An Ancient Land, Building New https://qualla.com/tenkodogo/ Photo credit Fred van der Kraaij, CC BY-SA 4.0. For all its deep history, Tenkodogo does not stand still. Ahead of the 2019 celebrations of the 11 Décembre festival - Burkina Faso's national day, which the town has hosted - new roads and roundabouts were paved, and movement through the city quickened. The old dirt airstrip was...

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