It amazed the villagers to see this stranger arrive without being invited! Nobody knew him, or had ever seen him before. One day, he decided to visit a village he had never reached before.īiking on paths through the bush, accompanied by his translator, he pedaled for long hours under the scorching heat of this part of sub-Saharan Africa, until he finally reached his destination. With all his heart, he preached the Gospel from village to village, accompanied by a translator when necessary, so as to be understood by the local population. They story is told as follows:Ī French missionary who lived there, would preach the Gospel every day in the villages surrounding Ouagadougou, the capital of the country, at the time about the size of a large village. This story happened at the end of the 1950’s. Literacy, access to knowledge and the living standards of aĬountry with a life expectancy of 61.17 years.I would like to tell you a true story that took place in a country of West Africa formerly called Upper Volta, today known as Burkina Faso. Territories in 2019 when ranked in terms of life expectancy, Standards of West Africa with poor life outcomes for its people down at 182nd place out of 189 countries and Today Burkina Faso is a poor country even by the He is Burkina Faso's first president without any past ties to the military. In the general election held on 29th November 2015, Roch Marc Christian Kabore (previously the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 19 and President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2002 to 2012) won in the first round with 53.5% of the vote and was subsequently sworn in as president. On 24th September 2015, after pressure from the African Union, ECOWAS and the armed forces, the military junta agreed to step down and Michel Kafando was reinstated as acting president. Michel Kafando subsequently became the transitional president of the country however on 16th September 2015 a military coup d'etat was carried out by the Regiment of Presidential Security, the former presidential guard of Compaore. Since then until his forced resignation in 2014. Whilst there are now multi party elections, Compaore won each and every one This coup was to define the history of Burkina Faso (so renamed in 1984)įor the next few decades with repeated military coups throughout the 1970s andġ980s until the country's former president, Blaise Compaore, come to power in aįurther such a coup in 1987. Students, unions and civil servants against the state of the country and
WHICH COUNTRY WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS UPPER VOLTA SERIES
Was deposed following a series of widespread demonstrations from Soon after, Yameogo banned all political parties apartįrom his own and he clung to power until a military coup in 1966 when he Independence as the Republic of Upper Volta with Maurice Yameogo as itsįirst president. Republic within the French Community and two years later achieved To be considered invincible, and, against a backdrop of nationalisticįervour sweeping across the continent, the French took heed ofĪnti-colonial agitation and restored the colony to its former state andīoundaries on 4th September 1947. World War II showed to native Africans that 'white man' should no longer Including the country's present day capital of Ouagadougou.
However in September 1932 theĬolony was dismantled altogether and divided up between Cote d'Ivoire,įrench Sudan and Niger with the former receiving the largest share With Franoois Hesling as its first governor in response to fears of armed In 1919 the territory become a separateĬonstituent territory of French West Africa with the name Haute Volta Over the next two yearsįurther military action saw most of what it now Burkina Faso come underįrench control, albeit with ongoing pockets of resistance. In 1896 as part of the Scramble for Africa after French colonial forcesĭefeated the Mossi kingdom of Ouagadougouin that year. Was inhabited by Mossi kingdoms that were to become a French protectorate As with so many nations without naturalīoundaries, Burkina Faso was home to numerous peoples, however its centre Population today of some 20.32 million (2019) people known as Burkinabe, its historyĬan be traced back to around 14,000BCE when it was populated by hunter To Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south-east, TogoĪnd Ghana to the south and Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the south-west. Burkina Faso, meaning 'the country of honourable people' is a neighbour
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