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8 unusual facts about Ouagadougou


Amadou Séré

Séré began his career on 16 April 2006 with Etoile Filante Ouagadougou and was one year later in summer 2007 promoted to first team who plays in the Burkinabé Premier League.

Avocet Mining

Avocet Mining’s operations in Burkina Faso are located within a 1,660 km2 land package in the Bélahouro district approximately 220 kilometres north-east of the capital, Ouagadougou.

Frédéric Guirma

Frédéric Fernand Guirma (born 27 April 1931, Ouagadougou) is a diplomat, writer and politician from Burkina Faso.

Gee Bayss

With respect, since 2002, Gee Bayss is one of the regular participants invited to the international festival Waga Hip hop in (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) to give workshops in turntablism He also participated to the artistic residency of vocal music, "Waka Tibio", which took place during the 2008 and 2009 editions of the festival.

Jonathan Sundy Zongo

Jonathan Sundy Zongo (born 2 December 1992 in Ouagadougou) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays for UD Almería in Spain, as a winger or forward.

Owen W. Roberts

He was political officer in Lagos from 1964 to 1965, and deputy chief of mission in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 1966 to 1968.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

She subsequently served as Information Officer in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Public Affairs Officer in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as Cultural Affairs Officer in Bogotá, Colombia, as Counselor for Public Affairs in Abidjan, Cộte d'Ivoire, where she also served briefly as Acting DCM and then for several months as Chargé d'affaires.

Robert Guéï

He was a career soldier: under the French administration, he was trained at the Ouagadougou military school and the St Cyr military school in France.


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Culture of Burkina Faso

The Popular Theatre in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is a center of social and cultural events for the country.

Diébédo Francis Kéré

The village of Gando is located south east of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso´s capital.

Economy of Burkina Faso

Industry, still in an embryonic stage, is located primarily in Bobo-Dioulasso, Ouagadougou, Banfora, and Koudougou.

François Compaoré

In the December 2012 parliamentary election, Compaoré stood as the second candidate on the CDP's candidate list for Kadiogo Province, which includes Ouagadougou, the capital.

Joseph Ouédraogo

In August 1959 Maurice Yaméogo forced Ouédraogo out of office as mayor of Ouagadougou, and after Yaméogo became President in 1960 Ouédraogo was interned for a while.

Kenneth Gyang

He studied Film Production at the National Film Institute in Jos and screenwriting at Gaston Kaboré's IMAGINE in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Koumbi Saleh

In the French translation of the Tarikh al-fattash published in 1913, Octave Houdas and Maurice Delafosse include a footnote in which they comment that local tradition also suggested that the first capital of Kayamagna was at Koumbi and that the town was in the Ouagadougou region, northeast of Goumbou on the road leading from Goumbou to Néma and Oualata.

Media of Burkina Faso

Two radio stations, one in Ouagadougou and one in Bobo-Dioulasso, are run by the government radio corporation Radiodiffusion Nationale.

Musée de Manega

Musée de Manega or Manega Museum is a museum located 55 km (34 mi) northwest of the city Ouagadougou, in the village of Manega, Burkina Faso.


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