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Data

Name: burkina faso

Type: Cluster

Start: 1919 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Upper Volta (France)
  • Republic of Upper Volta (France)
  • Republic of Upper Volta
  • Burkina Faso
  • Establishment


  • March 1919: In 1919, certain provinces from Upper Senegal and Niger were united into a separate colony called the Upper Volta in the French West Africa federation.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • September 1932: The Upper Volta Colony was dissolved and divided between the colonies of Ivory Coast, French Sudan and Niger.

  • September 1947: The Mossi renewed their pressure for separate territorial status and on 4 September 1947. Upper Volta became a French West African territory again in its own right.

  • December 1958: Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French community.

  • August 1960: The Republic of Upper Volta attained full independence from France.

  • August 1984: The Republic of Upper Volta changed its name to Burkina Faso.

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