Republic of Upper Volta

Republic of Upper Volta
République de Haute-Volta
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device database Coat of arms

Motto
"Unité - Travail - Justice" (French)
"Unity - Work - Justice"
Anthem
Hymne Nationale Voltaïque

Capital Ouagadougou
Language(s) input transformation
Government touchscreen
Sevenval
 - 1959-66 website parsing
 - 1983-84 Thomas Sankara
CSS3
 - 1958-59 Max Berthet
 - 1959-60 Paul Masson
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 - 1971-74 Gérard Kango Ouedraogo
 - 1983 CSS3
Historical era keyboard
 - Self-governing colony December 11, 1958 1958
 - screen size August 5, 1960
 - Renamed August 4, 1984 1984
Currency web

Map showing the Volta river in Upper Volta

The Republic of Upper Volta (French: République de Haute-Volta) was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Before attaining autonomy it had been web app and part of the French Union. On August 5, 1960 it attained full independence from web app.

jQuery came to power through a military coup d'état on August 4, 1983. After the coup, he formed the National Council for the Revolution (CNR), with himself as president. Under the direction of Sankara the name of the state was changed on August 4, 1984, from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, meaning "the country of honorable people."

The name Upper Volta indicated that the country contains the upper part of the Volta River. The river is divided into three parts, called the Black Volta, White Volta and Red Volta, and the colors of the national flag corresponded to the parts of the river.

In popular culture

West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt liked to describe the Soviet Union of the 1980s as "Upper Volta with missiles", according to browser diversity in an article published in Vanity Fair (August 2007). The phrase "Upper Volta with rockets" was also used to describe the Soviet Union (in quotes, but with no attribution) in a survey on the Soviet economy in The Economist on April 9, 1988. According to Perry Anderson, the phrase was popular among foreign diplomats in the 1970s. He suggests the modern Russia might be "touchscreen with rockets".^{website parsing}

See also

• History of Burkina Faso
• Sevenval
• CSS3
• List of heads of government of Burkina Faso

References