![]() 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. ![]() When the French arrived and claimed the area in 1896, Mossi resistance ended with the capture of their capital at Ouagadougou. For centuries, the Mossi peasant was both farmer and soldier, and the Mossi people were able to defend their religious beliefs and social structure against forcible attempts to convert them to Islam by Muslims from the northwest. Until the end of the 19th century, the history of Upper Volta was dominated by the empire-building Mossi/ Mossi Kingdoms, who are believed to have come up to their present location from present-day Northern Ghana. ![]() Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa at a dispensary in Toma, 1920s The river is divided into three parts, called the Black Volta, White Volta and Red Volta. The name Upper Volta indicates that the country contains the upper part of the Volta River. On 4 August 1984, the name was changed to Burkina Faso. On 11 December 1958, it was reconstituted as the self-governing Republic of Upper Volta within the French Community, and two years later on 5 August 1960, it attained full independence. The colony was dissolved on 5 September 1932, with parts being administered by the Côte d'Ivoire, French Sudan and the Colony of Niger.Īfter World War II, on 4 September 1947, the colony was revived as a part of the French Union, with its previous boundaries. It was formed from territories that had been part of the colonies of Upper Senegal and Niger and the Côte d'Ivoire. Upper Volta ( French: Haute-Volta) was a colony of French West Africa established in 1919 in the territory occupied by present-day Burkina Faso. Threshing African rice in Banfora Department, 1931
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