Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso / A country in West Africa, 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. It is located in the Sahara countries in Africa

Its land is a plateau of igneous and metamorphic rocks, covered by sedimentary rocks, and spread over some of the peaks and refractive mountains, and the highest peaks are Mount Ratnakwero (747 meters), and its lands gather many river valleys, and most of it is drained to the Volta River such as the White Volta, the Red Volta and the Black Volta, and the swamps spread in the regions As low as the swamp (Juruma), the home of the harmful tsetse fly

Burkina Faso is a vast plateau far from the coast. Its height ranges from 200 to 700 meters above sea level. Forest grassland covers most of the country, there are swamps in the southeast, and hills covered by forests in the west. Several rivers and valleys are found in the plateau, where the Black Volta rivers, the Red Volta and the White Volta flow towards the Ghanaian Lake Volta, flowing to the east to the Niger River. Most of the territory of Burkina Faso is rocky, dry and light in soil and does not retain water. Soon, it will lose its rain that ranges between 75 cm and 120 cm per year

The climate of Burkina Faso is tropical. Summer is rainy and dry in winter. Rain decreases in the southwest and increases in the northeast. Its temperature rises in summer. Thus its climate is characterized by two seasons, a dry winter, and a rainy summer that runs from June to September. Savannah and shrubs cover a large area. From her land

Cattle rearing is the most important activity in the economy of Burkina Faso. It contains between 2 and 3 million heads of cows, goats and sheep. Livestock exports constitute between one third and half of the export earnings

Most of the arable land is found in river valleys. Farmers use almost all of them to grow food crops, such as: beans, maize, millet, rice, corn, and phono, a sour wild herb whose seeds are used as food grains. The cash crops are cotton, peanuts and chia nuts, a plant whose seeds contain fat used to make soap

Burkina Faso exports livestock to Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, cotton and chia nuts to France, and imports food and agricultural equipment from France and from the European Community member states. Many young people go to Ghana and Ivory Coast to work on cocoa and coffee plantations for two or three years, and in cities for two years. The money they send home is a significant part of the income in Burkina Faso

A railway links Ouagadougou to Abidjan to Ivory Coast, and there is an airport in Ouagadougou and in Bobo Dioulasso

Most of the people of Burkina Faso belong to one of two major cultural groups, the Voltec and Mandi. The Voltec group includes the people of Musai, Popo, Guernsey and Lobby. The Musai people make up about half of the country's population. And they had established a kingdom with a central government headed by (Moro Napa), the leader of the Musai, which lasted for more than 800 years, and one Moro Napa still heads a court in Ouagadougou, the main city of Moro

Most of the Musai farmers are residents of the central and eastern parts of Burkina Faso, where each Musai family lives in Berry, a group of shacks constructed of milk surrounded by a small courtyard in which the family keeps sheep and goats

Popo, Jurassic and Lobby individually make up less than 10% of the population. The popo inhabit the southwest, around Bobo and Bolasso, and inhabit large villages where they build fortress-like houses, whose walls are built of mud brick and their thatched roofs. The Jurassic group inhabiting Kodogo, adopted modern changes more quickly than the Musai people. The people of the lobby live in the Java region, and they have long been skilled hunters and skilled farmers, but now they migrate to work in the cities and surrounding areas

The Mandi group includes the peoples of the Bosnian, Marka, Samo and Senufo. These peoples are branches of the Mandi groups living in Mali, Guinea, and northern Ivory Coast. In Burkina Faso there are several thousand nomadic pastoralists from Fulani and Tuareg, and they roam their sheep, goats and some other livestock in the pastoral areas in the northern part of Burkina Faso. There are also a few Hausa merchants who inhabit urban areas

Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) The history of the Musai people is the longest history among the people of Burkina Faso. The Musai inhabitants of the Yatenga region northwest of Wagadougou established a well-organized kingdom during the 14th century AD. And they moved their capital at the middle of the fifteenth century to Ouagadougou. They had military forces in the sixteenth century repelled the invading Sangi invaders from Mali today, the attacks weakened the Kingdom of Musai, and then began to collapse