Tiébélé Department

Tiébélé is a municipality in the West African nation of Burkina Faso and the same name of the corresponding departments. It lies in the south of the country in the region Centre- Sud and Province Nahouri, has included the 66 to the municipality counted villages 54 104 inhabitants ( 2006 census ) and is populated mainly by ethnic group of Kassena.

Tiébélé is known for the architecture of its farms and the wall paintings, which are carried out by the Kassena women. You use to black color that is mixed from graphite powder and water, and white color, which is obtained with the help of soapstone. The paint is applied to a red clay surface, water and Néré pods. Today, however tar is also increasingly being used instead of mud. As motifs are patterns and symbols that are either taken from everyday life, or religious symbolism.

In Tiébélé also the homestead of the King ( Cour Royale ) the Kassena, Poawê is I, which can be visited.