Agriculture represents huge part of its gross domestic product and occupies 80% of the working population.
On August 4, 1984, as a final result of President Sankara's zealous activities, the country's name was eventually changed from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which translates to "land of honest people".īurkina Faso has one of the lowest GDP per capita incomes in the world: $1,200. Jean-Baptiste Lingani-all leftist military officers-dominated the regime. Thomas Sankara made another coup d'etat on August 4, 1983.After the coup, Sankara formed the National Council for the Revolution (CNR), with himself as president. In 1966 when after much unrest-mass demonstrations and strikes by students, labor unions, and civil servants-the military intervened and in 1978 civil government was reelected.Ĭapt.
#Upper volta was ruled full
Full independence from France was attained on August 5,1960. Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French community in 1958. In 1904, the largely pacified territories of the Volta basin were integrated into the Upper Senegal and Niger colony of French West Africa under the name Upper Volta. By 1898, the majority of the territory corresponding to Burkina Faso today was nominally conquered however, control of many parts remained uncertain. The eastern region and the western region, where a standoff against the forces of the powerful ruler Samori Ture complicated the situation, came under French occupation in 1897. Тhe Mossi kingdom of Ouagadougou was defeated by French colonial forces and became a French protectorate in 1896. These kingdoms emerged in the early sixteenth century. The regions are:īurkina Faso was populated early, between 140 BC, by hunter-gatherers in the northwestern part of the country, Settlements appeared between 36 BC with farmers.The central part of Burkina Faso included a number of Mossi kingdoms, the most powerful of which were that of Wagadogo (Ouagadougou) and Yatenga. Land Divisions:Burkina Faso is divided into thirteen regions, forty-five provinces, and 301 departments.
The basin of the Niger River also drains 27% of the country's surface. The Black Volta, along with the Komoe, which flows to the southwest, is one of the country's only two rivers which flow year-round. The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta (or Mouhoun), the White Volta (Nakambe) and the Red Volta (Nazinon). Burkina Faso is therefore a relatively flat country. The average altitude of Burkina Faso is 400 meters (1,300 ft) and the difference between the highest and lowest terrain is no greater than 600 meters (2,000 ft). The massif is bordered by sheer cliffs up to 150 meters (490 ft) high. The southwest of the country, on the other hand, forms a sandstone massif, where the highest peak, Tenakourou, is found at an elevation of 749 meters (2,450 feet). The larger part of the country is covered by a peneplain, which forms a gently undulating landscape with, in some areas, a few isolated hills, the last vestiges of a Precambrian massif. Landforms: Burkina Faso is made up of two major types of countryside. Predominantly farmers, the Mossi kingdom is still led by the Mogho Naba, whose court is in Ouagadougou. The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso from Ghana and established an empire that lasted more than 800 years. The Voltaic Mossi make up about one-half of the population. Burkina Faso's 15.7 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups-the Voltaic and the Mande (whose common language is Dioula).
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