DIAN, a patrilineal people closely related to the Lobi and the Gan but more advanced, living near Diebougou, Gaoua district, Upper Volta, Africa.
See Labouret, "La Terre, la Chasse et la guerre parmi les popula tions du Lobi," Annuaires et Memoires, Comite Etudes Hist. et Scient. (Dakar, 1916-17) .