THE KOUANDA DIGITAL MUSEUM

KOUANDA

The Yaarse Heritage Archive

A digital museum, living archive and historical atlas. Enter through story, people, place or evidence — every route reconnects to the same governed record.

Begin with the Yarsé storyOrigins, movement, Moogo and remembered history.Follow Islam and knowledgeMosques, scholarship, merchant networks and religious life.Enter the Kouanda archiveFamily, Yamana, records, photographs and open questions.Read the evidenceObjects, maps, bibliography, provenance and corrections.

ONE INSTITUTION · FOUR WINGS

The museum now has a clear structure.

All sixteen exhibitions remain intact, but they are organized into four major wings. You always know where you are, what came before and what follows.

EXHIBITIONS 01–04

Origins & networks

From the Mandé world and Wangara networks to remembered settlement in Moogo.

Enter this wing →See all 16 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS 05–08

Place, trade & belief

Kuãnda, Yamana, salt and kola exchange, Islam and knowledge.

Enter this wing →See all 16 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS 09–12

Society & historical change

Yarma, Mossi–Yarsé relations, colonial encounter and Upper Volta.

Enter this wing →See all 16 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS 13–16

Kouanda, the present & memory

Burkina Faso, Kouanda lives, the living Yarsé world and captivity memory.

Enter this wing →See all 16 exhibitions

VISUAL ARCHIVE · BEYOND ONE FAMILY DOSSIER

Photographs, maps, objects and family archive.

Kharim remains foundational to the family archive, but the Museum’s visual collection now clearly represents the wider historical world the institution documents.