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| Upper Volta is a former French
colony in West Africa which was divided between Niger, French Sudan and Ivory Coast in
1933Burkina Faso, formerly Upper
Volta, is a small, poor, landlocked country in West Africa. It is bounded by Niger to the
east, Mali to the north and west, and Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Ivory Coast to the south. A
French colony after 1896, it became independent in 1960. The renaming of the country in
1984 dramatized its break with the colonial past. |
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