Burkina Faso Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Burkina Faso
Literally meaning the Land of the Upright Men, Burkina Faso, a landlocked country, comprises an area of 274,400 kmand is surrounded by six countries. Until the end of the 19th century, the history of Burkina Faso was dominated by the empire-building Mossi. The French arrived and claimed the area in 1896, but Mossi resistance ended only with the capture of their capital, Ouagadougou, in 1901. The colony of Upper Volta was established in 1919, but it was dismembered and reconstituted several times until the present borders were recognized in 1947. The country became independent in the 1960s and was renamed to Burkina Faso in the 1980s. In the early 1980s, Thomas Sankara, commonly referred to as "Africa's Che Guevera", initiated some highly ambitious campaigns for social and economic changes,
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