Burkina Faso
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Burkina Faso, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- Sankara Confronts Mitterrand Over Apartheid, Ouagadougou 1986 (Article)
- The CIA's 1986 Warning and the Coup That Killed Thomas Sankara (Article)
- Thomas Sankara's Final Months, Isolation, and October 15, 1987 (Article)
- Sankara's Debt Speech to the OAU and His Assassination Three Months Later (Article)
- Thomas Sankara's Case for Women's Liberation as Revolution (Article)
From the Archive
- Words on marble from our Burkina Faso President, Ibrahim Traoré ...
- Thomas Sankara's Burkina Faso Ministers arriving for a 1984 Cabinet meeting. Normally, Ministers moved arou…
- By the way, in year 2022, the currency of these our African countries are still being printed by France: 🇧…
- As we mourn the late great Thomas Sankara, killed on this date in 1987, and celebrate Fela Kuti, who was bo…
- The lessons Thomas Sankara taught us Africans in humility, in being dutiful and selfless in service to the…
- BREAKING: Blaise Compaoré, former Burkina Faso president now exiled in Côte d’Ivoire, is to be tried in a m…
- The late, great Thomas Sankara's official car while in power at Burkina Faso.
- The CIA predicts the 1987 bloody coup against Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso in this 1986 report, and the t…
- The very last moments of the late, great Thomas Sankara, leader of the Burkinabe revolution, before he was…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- Nigeria has the worst police in the world, followed by DRC, Kenya and Uganda, says the World Internal Secur…
- President Emmanuel Macron of France "summons" the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad to come to…
- Latest FIFA Rankings—Top 20 African countries Senegal🇸🇳20th Tunisia🇹🇳29 Nigeria🇳🇬33 Algeria🇩🇿40th M…
- Due to China's checkbook diplomacy, only one African country recognises and maintain ties with Taiwan as an…
- Corruption in Public sector measured in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018). 1 Seychelles 2 Botswana 3 Cabo Verde 4 R…
- This is the 2014 Burkinabé uprising against Blaise Compaoré, who murdered President Thomas Sankara, and att…
- During French President Macron recent African tour just days ago, this lady, a young student at Ouagadougou…
- Architecture of the Gurunsi people of Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. The designs are usually done by women.
- China maintains official diplomatic relations with all African countries, except one. Burkina Faso.
- Africa's worst literacy rates are all in West Africa: 48. Benin 34.70 49. Guinea 29.50 50. Niger 28.70 51.…
- Air Algérie Flight 5017, en route from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, crashed in Mali, killing all… (2014)
- Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré resigned after 27 years in power, following days of mass protests… (2014)
- With a population of between 4,000 and 5,000 elephants, Burkina Faso is home to the largest remaining eleph…
- Burkina Faso means "The Land of Honest Men" in the local languages: Burkina means “honest” in Mòoré, Faso m…
- Blaise Compaoré has been the President of Burkina Faso since 1987 after leading a coup d'état that murdered…
- Renamed nations contd: Rhodesia: Zimbabwe; SW Africa: Namibia; Spanish Sahara: W. Sahara; Upper Volta: Burk…
- Thomas Sankara, revolutionary President of Burkina Faso, was killed in a coup led by his former ally Blaise… (1987)
- President Thomas Sankara renamed the Republic of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, meaning "land of upright/hone… (1984)
- Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Sangoulé Lamizana in a bloodless military coup in Upper Volta (prese… (1980)
- A general strike and popular uprising in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) forced President Maurice Yaméogo to… (1966)
- France legislated for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), and Niger. (1960)
- Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gained independence from France, with Maurice Yaméogo as its first president. (1960)
- French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gained self-government within the French Community, becoming the Repu… (1958)
- The founding congress of the African Convention (Convention Africaine) opened in Dakar, joining Léopold Séd… (1957)
- Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Marxist President of Burkina Faso known for his anti-imperialist policies… (1949)