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Burkina Faso is a country in West Africa. It has no access to the sea and is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south and Ivory Coast to the southwest.
The country was known as Ano Volta. On August 4, 1984, President Tomas Sankara changed the name to "land of honest people" in the two largest indigenous languages ??(Mossi) and (Dioula).
It became independent from France in 1960. Government instability in the 1970s and 1980s was followed by multi-party elections in the early 1990s. Thousands of farmers migrate south each year to C te d'Ivoire and Ghana. The capital of Ouagadougou is also known by the locals as "Ouaga".
Burkina Faso has a predominantly tropical climate with two distinct seasons: the rainy season with 600 to 900 mm of rainfall, and the dry season.
The rainy season lasts about 4 months, from May / June to September and is shorter in the north of the country.
Like all of West Africa, Burkina Faso was inhabited early, mainly by hunter-gatherers in its northwestern part (12000 to 5000 BC). In 1973 their tools were discovered (scrapers, cutters and arrowheads).
The use of iron, pottery and stones came around 1500 to 1000 BC, along with spiritual quests, as evidenced by tomb ruins discovered.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, Burkina Faso was an important economic center of the Songhai Empire.