Koulango (plural Koulam) means subject, vassal, and appears to have been given by the princes, who organized the Dagomba kingdom of Bouna to 1600. In the past, these people called themselves and their field Loron widely spread in the current territory of Upper Volta. Their stateless society, paléonégritude type, has been profoundly transformed by the newcomers, they began to organize small chiefdoms, as Nassian and Barabo, and enter forêt.Dans religion, ancestor worship is clearly overshadowed by the spirits of nature, expressed through secret societies, "responsible for the initiation and masks which are the main achievement of the art Koulango." ""