Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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"When outright colonisation finally started to lose its sex appeal in the middle of the 20th century, Upper Volta was one of the most vocal in calling for the return of independence."
lonelyplanet.com

"Burkina Faso [1] ,formerly Upper Volta ,is a landlocked country in West Africa."
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"After World War II the Mossi renewed their pressure for separate territorial status and on September 4 1947 Upper Volta became a French West African territory again in its own right."
world66.com

"Formerly known as Upper Volta, the French colony gained independence in 1960."
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"First the capital of the Mossi Empire and later of Upper Volta and Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou became a veritable communal center in 1995."
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"When France took possession of the territory, then called Upper Volta, the colonists made minimal efforts to govern or develop, or even to challenge existing traditional political structures."
.nationalgeographic.com

"Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, formerly known as Upper Volta."
world66.com

"One of the most important film events in the world took place over the past fortnight – no, not in Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre, but in Ouagadougou, the dusty and poor capital of French-speaking Burkina Faso in sub-Saharan west Africa."
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"Ouagadougou was the site of Ouagadougou grand market ,one of the largest markets in West Africa ,which burned in 2003 and remains closed."
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"As with most of West Africa, the best time to go is weather related."
lonelyplanet.com

"Although it receives only a small number of tourists per year, it is an excellent destination for anyone interested in seeing beautiful West African country and exploring African culture and music."
wikitravel.org

"Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, formerly known as Upper Volta."
world66.com

"The region's remoteness, poor soil quality, and relative scarcity of mineral wealth made it a low priority for the French and British colonizers who scrambled for control of West Africa at the end of the 19th century."
.nationalgeographic.com

"I was planning on including Niger as one of my countries to visit while in west Africa, and we really wanted to do the Air Mountains and Tenere Desert, but I know now that the conditions in those regions are now unsuitable for travel."
lonelyplanet.com

"In the 1904 large-scale reorganization of the French West African colonial empire, the now largely pacified territories of the Volta basin were integrated into the Upper Senegal and Niger (Haut-Sénégal et Niger) colony of French West Africa (AOF)."
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