Teeming with excitement from the independence of France, the Republic of Upper Volta in Africa became the epicenter of a music revolution in the Seventies. The cultural capital, Bobo-Dioulasso ...

Before its 1960 independence from France, a West African country was known as Haute-Volta, then the Republic of Upper Volta.

The treaty was signed on behalf of Upper Volta by the republic’s president, Maurice Yameogo, and for Israel by Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Earlier, President Yameogo, concluding a week’s tour ...

Thanks to Google I found it to be a landlocked country in west Africa, previously known as the Republic of Upper Volta. A one-time French colony, it has been rather unstable politically since ...

A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper Volta in 1960 ... who are operating in Mali and the Central African Republic - but says it will use "Russian instructors" to train its ...

1958 - Upper Volta becomes autonomous republic within the French Community. Sangoule Lamizana came to power in a 1966 coup 1966 - Yameogo toppled in a military coup led by Sangoule Lamizana ...

The accord was forged between the newly independent Republic of Upper Volta, as Burkina Faso used to be called, and its long-time colonial power. It is one of the legal bases for French military ...

the yé-yé of French ’60s pop—the bands of Upper Volta drew on all of it. No doubt, the titan of African pop, Franco Luambo’s O.K. Jazz—from the Republic of the Congo and the biggest ...

A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper Volta in 1960 ... who are operating in Mali and the Central African Republic - but says it will use "Russian instructors" to train its ...