Burkina Faso
Welcome on the gallery devoted in the Burkina Faso. I had opportunity to go this year there to spend some days there, and it is a very pretty country of Black Africa, for whom likes Africa of course, but one of the poorest also. Their main means is cotton.
The reserve of Nazinga, where the photographs of animals were made, is on the road which leaves Ouagadougou, the capital and goes down towards the frontiere of Ghana. They leave the road in Pâ, small village, to take the lane and arrive at the ranch.
Other photos were made near Moussoudougou, in the south of Bobo-Dioulasso, in the middle of nowhere, where we remained several days to camp.
Moussoudougou means " Village of the women ". For history, when the army came to search the men for enroler, those - çi had already hidden in jungle, and therefore, there remained only women in this village, where from the name..... History of Africa like so many others.
The Burkina Faso, also called Burkina, in former days Haute-Volta, is a country of Western Africa without access to the sea. His inhabitants are Burkinabè (invariable word).
The Burkina Faso is bordering of
six countries. Mali in the north, Niger in the East, the Benin in the southeast,
Togo and Ghana in the south and the Ivory Coast in the southwest.
The ancient French colony, Haute-Volta acquires independence in 1960. The actual name of the country (Burkina Faso) dates from August 4th, 1984, under the presidency of the revolutionary Thomas Sankara. It means the fatherland of the honest men in local languages mooré (burkina meaning "insert") and bamanankan (faso being translated by "fatherland"). It is a combination in two main languages of the country (the mooré spoken by Mossi, majority ethnic group of the Burkina and the bamanankan either « language of Bambara » or of Dioula spoken in the sub-region west - Africain). Burkinabè who indicates the inhabitant (man or woman) is there foulfouldé, spoken language by Peuls, populates also present nomadic stockbreeders in numerous countries of Western Africa. (Wikipedia source)
