61. Carleton College: Art Gallery: Burkina Faso centuries ago, they subjugated indigenous populations fiercely independent, politically decentralized peoples to the Bwa, Bobo, Kassena, Lela, lobi, Nuna, Nunama http://www.carleton.edu/campus/gallery/exhibitions/2002/burkinaFaso/

Exhibition Description Calendar of Events Exhibition Description: Art and Life in Burkina Faso, Land of Upright People Carleton College Art Gallery April 3 - May 8, 2002 The art works gathered here come from Burkina Faso, the West African nation formerly known as Upper Volta. In 1984, former President Thomas Sankara (1949-1987) renamed the country Burkina Faso, drawing together words from the languages of the country's major populations, the Mossi and the Dyula. Roughly translated, Burkina Faso means "the land of upright people." Located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, with national boundaries drawn by the French during the colonial era, many diverse peoples live in this dry, landlocked country, independent since 1960. Burkina Faso's population is made up of more than sixty different ethnic groups. The country's complex cultural diversity is reflected in this exhibition which includes works of art by Bwa, Bobo, Kassena, Lela, Lobi, Mossi, Nuna, Nunama, Toussian, Turka, and Winiama artists. While Burkina Faso is often described as one of the most economically impoverished countries in the world, with an average annual per capita income of between two and three hundred dollars, in terms of cultural traditions, it is one of the richest places on earth. The peoples of Burkina Faso create a wide range of objects, diverse in form, function, size and scale, and employing many different materials and technologies. Within their original contexts, art works are valued not only for their aesthetic qualities, but also for their functional efficacy. In Burkina Faso, art is not just something to look at, but also serves life-sustaining purposes, vital to the well-being of individuals and the larger society.

62. Ýêîëîãèÿ è ïðàâà ÷åëîâåêà Projects have forcibly displaced indigenous peoples and destroyed Improvement of Living lobi,Association for of Empowerment for indigenous Natural Resources http://www.seu.ru/members/ucs/eco-hr/827.htm

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63. Africana Studies: Program Achivements learn some basic Arabic and some indigenous African languages such as Akan, Malinke, Kru, lobi, and Wolof for the study of issues affecting African peoples; and; http://www.potsdam.edu/SOCI/AFRICANA/PROACH.HTM

Grant Award A team of five SUNY Potsdam faculty members headed by Dr. Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi, has been awarded a major grant of over $104,000 from the U.S. Department of Education's Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program . Other members of the expansion team are: Dr. Phillip Neisser, Politics; Dr. Lora Lunt, International Education; Dr. Celine Philibert, Modern Languages; and Dr. Janet Shideler (one of the original team members who is no longer employed at SUNY Potsdam). The grant is intended to expand the college's Africana Studies Program andenhance student exposure to, and learning of, foreign languages over a two-year period (1999-2001). The specific objectives of this grant are: to develop five new courses and revise five existing ones to support the expansion of SUNY Potsdam's Africana Studies Program; to expand course offerings in French with increased cultural components for Francophone Africa, possibly leading to the creation of an African concentration in the French major; to provide travel funds for the Director of Africana Studies to negotiate student and faculty exchanges with Vista University, South Africa, and the National University of Cote d'Ivoire;

64. Art/Museums: Echoing Images, Couples In African Sculpture At The Metropolitan Mu illustrated in plate 28 the Chamba peoples couple , a style are the Dogon, Bamana, Senufo, lobi and Baga. response to an assault on indigenous belief systems http://www.thecityreview.com/echoing.html

Echoing Images Couples in African Sculpture The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 10 to September 5, 2004 Commemorative Couple, Vezo peoples, Madagascar, 19th-20th Century, wood, male figure is 22 7/8 inches high, the female figure is 17 11/16 inches high, private collection By Carter B. Horsley In contrast with the stupendous and gargantuan exhibition on Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 2004, this intimate show of "Echoing Images, Couples in African Sculpture" at the same institution demonstrates the maxim that small can often be better. A themed rather than chronological show, it is not encyclopedic but the few objects on display are mostly of extremely high and memorable quality. The finest "couple" in the exhibition is unquestionably a 19th-20th Century commemorative couple, Vezo peoples, from Madagascar. The male wood figure is 22 7/8 inches high and the female figure is 17 11/16 inches high and both come from a private collection. Somewhat eroded, these figures are remarkably graceful and have quite lyrical and almost Oriental poses. These world-class figures are exquisite. Commemorative couple, Sakalava peoples, Madagascar, 19th-20th Century, wood, male figure is 70 7/8 inches high, female figure is 61 7/16 inches high, private collection

65. Adherents.com: By Location src Weeks, R. (ed.), Muslim peoples A World 1998), indigenous beliefs 40%, Muslim 50%, Christian (mainly lobi, Burkina Faso, , -, -, 1 country, 1995, Haskins, J http://www.adherents.com/adhloc/Wh_46.html

Adherents.com - Religion by Location Over 42,000 religious geography and religion statistics citations (membership statistics for over 4,000 different religions, denominations, tribes, etc.) for every country in the world. To Index back to Bulgaria, paganism Bulgaria, continued... Group Where Number of Adherents % of total pop. Number of congreg./ churches/ units Number of countries Year Source Quote/ Notes Protestant Bulgaria Goring, Rosemary (ed). (Larousse: 1994) pg. 581-584. Table: "Population Distribution of Major Beliefs "; "Figures have been compiled from the most accurate recent available information and are in most cases correct to the nearest 1% "; Protestant "includes all non-Roman Catholic denominations " Protestant Bulgaria *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World Table "Religions "; total population: 9,036,000 Roma Bulgaria 1378 C.E. Malcom, Noel. Bosnia: A Short History . Washington Square, NY: New York University Press (1994), pg. 114. "Gypsy villages in western Bulgaria are mentioned in a grant of land in 1378; this suggests that they had already been established for quite a long period in that area. " Tenrikyo - graduated from Shuyoka Bulgaria *LINK* official Tenrikyo web site; page: "A Statistical Review of Tenrikyo: 2 of 2 " (viewed 10 Dec. 1999)

66. H-Net Multimedia Reviews: Jeremy Coote On Museum Ethnographers Group Annual Gene and ignore the contemporary political conditions of peoples. of Oxford), Looking for lobi Three Museums a MultiCultural Context indigenous Voices, Cognition http://www.h-net.org/mmreviews/showrev.cgi?path=138

67. AllAfrica.com: West Africa for total war as they face Nigeria s lobi Stars this For most people, Dirk Smet is one of the Kese a Festival Showcasing Excellence in indigenous Governance http://allafrica.com/westafrica/bydate/?n=24

68. Africa And The Diaspora, Ann Arbor, April 1997 Rackham Assembly Hall Presenter Krakaba lobi, University of Diane Thram, Indiana University indigenous Gospel Music Daily Life of African People Yaya Diallo http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/97-4-afr.html

Department of Music Ann Arbor, April 1997 ************* MUSIC AND DANCE OF AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA: The Present State and Potential in the United States University of Michigan April 3-5, 1997 http://www.umich.edu/~ovpama/music lmonts@umich.edu 3084 Fleming Admin. Bldg. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1340 http://www.umich.edu/~ovpama

69. AMU CHMA NEWSLETTER #10 (05/25/1993) recent discoveries about indigenous African mathematics of the Tchokwe and neighbouring peoples in Angola Gouro, Kroumen, Koulango, Djan (lobi), Malinke (Dioula http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amu_chma_10.html

AMUCHMA-NEWSLETTER-10 Chairman: Paulus Gerdes (Mozambique) Secretary: Ahmed Djebbar (Algeria) TABLE OF CONTENTS NEWSLETTER #10 Objectives of AMUCHMA Meetings Current research interests Bibliography on Astronomy in Africa south of the Sahara ... back to AMUCHMA ONLINE 2. MEETINGS 2.1 First AMU Symposium on Mathematics Education in Africa for the 21st Century William Ebeid, Chairman of the AMU Commission on Mathematics Education, presented at the First AMU Symposium on Mathematics Education in Africa for the 21st Century (Cairo, Egypt, 5-10 September, 1992) a paper entitled "Research in Mathematics Education in Egypt". He gave an overview on the 240 theses (171 M.Ed. and 69 Ph.D.) in Mathematics Education defended at Egyptian universities in the period 1954-1990. 2.2 Seminar "Mathematics, Philosophy, and Education" Salimata Doumbia (Côte d'Ivoire) and Paulus Gerdes (Mozambique) conducted a workshop on 'Ethnomathematics / Mathematics in the African Cultural Environment' at the international seminar "Mathematics, Philosophy, and Education" (Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, 25-29 January, 1993). In one of the plenary sessions of the same seminar, Gerdes presented a paper entitled 'Ethnomathematics as a new research area in Africa'. 2.3 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

70. Part I Barker, Peter (1986), peoples, Department of History, University Lettre de Bouna les lobi condamnés au Bening, Raymond B. (1973), “indigenous Concepts of http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/ejab/7/biblio.html

Title page Preface Contents Alphabetical Index A B C D ... Z A Abdul-Korah, Paul Kantunye (1980), History of the Dagaaba with Special Reference to the Manlaala . B.A. thesis, Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon. Abobo, Salvius Anthony Claret (1994), A History of the Jirapa Traditional Area from the Early Settlement to 1980 B.A. thesis, Department of History, University of Cape Coast. Angkaraaba Saanchi, James (1980), The Nominal Phrase in Dagaari B.A. thesis, University of Ghana, Legon. Angkaraaba Saanchi, James (1992), The Dagaaba Dirge: A Study of its Structure and Style . M.A. thesis, University of Ghana, Legon. Angkaraaba Saanchi, James (1997), “The Vowel System of Dagaare”, GurPapers / Cahiers Voltaïques Angsotinge, Gervase T. (1986), Wisdom of the Ancestors An Analysis of the Oral Narratives of the Dagaaba of Northern Ghana . Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Los Angeles. (eds.), African Musicology A Festschrift for J H Kwabena Nketia . Vol. I. Los Angeles: UCLA-Press: 93-110. Anonymous (1962), “Enquête de ménage en pays lobi”.

71. Joshua Project - Peoples By Country Profiles People Name General Ble. indigenous Fellowship of 100+ http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=101518&rog3=UV

72. Encyclopedia: Demographics Of Burkina Faso Most of Burkina s people are concentrated in the south groups Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani Religions indigenous beliefs 40 http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Demographics-of-Burkina-Faso

Supporter Benefits Signup Login Sources ... Pies Factoid #45 South America is unusual in that it is both urbanized and poor Interesting Facts Make your own graph: Hold down Control and click on several. Compare All Top 5 Top 10 Top 20 Top 100 Bottom 100 Bottom 20 Bottom 10 Bottom 5 All (desc) in category: Select Category Agriculture Crime Currency Democracy Economy Education Energy Environment Food Geography Government Health Identification Immigration Internet Labor Language Manufacturing Media Military Mortality People Religion Sports Taxation Transportation Welfare with statistic: view: Correlations Printable graph / table Pie chart Scatterplot with ... * Asterisk means graphable. Added May 21 Mortality stats Multi-users ½ price Catholic stats Top Graphs Richest Most Murderous Most Populous Most Militaristic ... More Stats Categories Agriculture Background Crime Currency ... Welfare Updated: May 30, 2004 Encyclopedia : Demographics of Burkina Faso Sponsored links: Burkina Faso 's 10 million people belong to two major West Africa n cultural groupsthe Voltaic and the Mande . The Voltaic are far more numerous and include the Mossi, who make up about one-half of the population. The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso and established an empire that lasted more than 800 years. Predominantly farmers, the Mossi are still bound by the traditions of the Mogho Naba, who hold court in Ouagadougou About 5,000

73. Traditional Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso, Cultural Travel, West Africa, Crafts, Lo Burkina Faso to meet the lobi, Bobo and some of the best preserved among these people. canoeing on Lake Tengrela, traditional indigenous architectural styles http://www.infohub.com/TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/10582.html

You are here: Home Burkina Faso Trip Listing Service Home Categories Active Adventure Affinity Family Hobby ... Sports Destination Africa Asia Australia Caribbean ... South America Weekend Getaways Backroad CityEscape Unique Stays Castle Hotel Eco Lodge Outdoors Fishing Lodge Guest Ranch Hunting Lodge Resorts Diving Golf Naturist Spa Are you interested? This is tour is no longer offered by InfoHub. To find similar tours or other tours available, click for more information. Traditional Burkina Faso Please, note! This Tour is no longer offered by InfoHub. Find similar tours here Your Itinerary Day 1: Arrival in OUAGADOUGOU, transfer, dinner and night in the Palm Beach hotel. D Day 2: BOBO DIOULASSO- After breakfast, depart for BOBO DIOULASSO. You will make a stop to see the sacred crocodiles living in the pond of SABOU. We will stop at some small local villages along our journey, a highlight being KORO; a small Bobo’s village built on high rock. Dinner and night at the Auberge. B L D Day 3: BOBO DIOULASSO - BOBO DIOULASSO is a wonderfully green city. Today you will tour the local museum .You will also discover BOBO DIOULASSO ‘S old district and its mosque in "banco", built more a century ago. After diner, an evening party with traditional music is foreseen for those who are interested. Night at the Auberge. B L D Day 4: BANFORA- Depart for BANFORA, where you will tour sugar cane plantations. You will stop along the way to admire the domes of FABEDOUGOU, followed by a walk around the waterfalls of KERFIGUELA, where swimming is possible. You will also stop in some local villages to meet with the local people and learn about daily life. Then, you will sail in a dugout canoe on the lake of TENGRELA and look for hippopotamus. Dinner and night in the Canne à Sucre hotel in Banfora.

74. Burkino Population HIV/AIDS people living with HIV/AIDS 350,000 Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, lobi, Bobo, Mande Religions indigenous beliefs 40%, Muslim 50%, Christian http://www.nationbynation.com/Burkino/Population.html

BACK TO THE FRONT PAGE BASIC INFO. ECONOMY GEOGRAPHY ... BURKINA FASO Most of Burkina's people are concentrated in the south and center of the country, sometimes exceeding 48 per square kilometer (125/sq. mi.). This population density, high for Africa, causes annual migrations of hundreds of thousands of Burkinabe to Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana for seasonal agricultural work. A plurality of Burkinabe adhere to traditional African religions. The introduction of Islam to Burkina Faso was initially resisted by the Mossi rulers. Christians, predominantly Catholics, are largely concentrated among the urban elite. POPULATION GRAPH Population: note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2002 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 47.3% (male 3,007,675; female 2,960,697)

75. International Fellowship Of Intercessors - Berkina Faso Home Page the region were the Bobo, lobi and Gurunsi had the enthusiastic support of urban young people. Ouagadougou Major languages French, indigenous languages Major http://www.ifa-usapray.org/IFI_Burkina_Faso.htm

Burkina Faso Prayer Alert COUNTRY PROFILE OVERVIEW FACTS Population: 12 m Capital: Ouagadougou Major languages: French, indigenous languages Major religions: Indigenous beliefs, Islam, Christianity Form of government: Multiparty republic Monetary unit: 1 CFA (Communaute Financiere Africaine) franc = 100 centimes Main exports: Cotton, animal products, gold Internet domain: .bf Time zone: GMT International dialing code: +226 LEADERS President: Blaise Campaore Born in 1950 and trained as a soldier in Cameroon and Morocco, Blaise Campaore served under Thomas Sankara as minister of state to the presidency, before deposing and executing him in 1987. He disarmed local militias and, despite his reputed left-wing leanings, embarked on a program of privatization and austerity measures sponsored by the International Monetary Fund. After officially eschewing socialism, he was elected president unopposed in 1991, and re-elected by a landslide in 1998. Prime Minister: Ernest Paramanga Yonli; Foreign Minister: Youssouf Ouedraogo; Defense Minister: Kouame Louge; Economy and Finance Minister: Ernest Paramanga Yonli. MEDIA The Ministry of Communication and Culture supervises the administration of all media. The Superior Council of Information also regulates broadcasters. There are about a dozen private radio stations, one private television channel and numerous independent publications. Libel and defamation laws have been invoked occasionally. However, normally the media, which is often critical of the government, operates with little interference.

76. The Blacksmith's Art From Africa to interpret the metallurgical processes the people witnessed when inexpensive iron onto the shores of africa. By 1920 indigenous furnaces ceased to produce http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=363

77. Race And Ethnicity Analysis - BloodBook.com, Blood Information For Life RACIAL and/or ETHNIC ANALYSIS of PEOPLE GROUPS. Faso, Mossi (about 24%), Gurunsi, Senufo, lobi, Bobo, Mande origin 27%, other European 20%, indigenous Indian and http://www.bloodbook.com/race-eth.html

RACE and ETHNICITY ANALYSIS BLOODBOOK.COM THIS PAGE PRESENTS PERCENTAGE DETAILS OF INDIVIDUAL ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES SEPARATED BY COUNTRY. TO HOME PAGE CLOSE WINDOW Racial and Ethnic Distribution of Blood Types African American Black Blood Donor Emergency COUNTRY RACIAL and/or ETHNIC ANALYSIS of PEOPLE GROUPS Afghanistan Pashtun 38%, Tajik 25%, Uzbek 6%, Hazara 19%, minor ethnic groups (Chahar Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) Albania Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2%: Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians Algeria Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% Andorra Spanish 61%, Andorran 30%, French 6%, other 3% Angola Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, Mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% Antigua black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian (see Barbuda) Argentina European 97% (mostly of Spanish and Italian descent), 3% other (mostly Indian or Mestizo) Armenia Armenian 93%, Azeri 3%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 2% (1989) Note: as of the end of 1993, virtually all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia

78. Vitalog.com - Search By Location Ethnic groups Mossi about 24%, Gurunsi, Senufo, lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani Religion indigenous beliefs 40 search people who Born Died Burial. http://www.vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/country.cgi?cod=1040&ctype=birth&sort=n

79. TRACES OF ANCESTRAL CULTURES Visit of Obire ( an animist people who adore their kings like DAY 10 lobi COUNTRYPO Going for the Gourounsi day and mixing with the indigenous populations of http://www.yenenga.com/yenen_is/circuitos/circu_is5.htm

TRACES OF ANCESTRAL CULTURES We propose to you one of most complete travels to live and know this cordial continent!!! Burkina Faso: country of upright men and capital of all the continent traditional music, situated in the bosom of west Africa. Mali: Togo-Benin: the infancy of the Vaudou and the primitive Tata Somba. Arrival: Thursday - Departure: Wednesday - Type of Travel: cultural-ethnic DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN OUAGADOUGOU with regular flight. Transfer to the hotel. Lodging. DAY 2: OUAGA-MANEGA-OUAHIGOUYA DAY 3: OUAHIGOUYA-DOGON COUNTRY Departure in the morning to wards the cliff of Bandiagara and crossing a lands cape characterized by gigantic baobab and thorny bushes, visit of some Dogon villages of the platform; arrival at the cliff in the last hours of the evening. Lodging in locale hits. DAY 4: DOGON COUNTRY-BANDIAGARA During this day will be realized a short excursion on foot in fill of many villages hung on the cliff which permit to observe the ability of Dogon people, expressed in suggestive artistic forms; masks, ritual figures and doors. Departure in the evening to wards Bandiagara. Lodging. DAY 5: BANDIAGARA-DJENNE-MOPTI DAY 6: MOPTI-NIGER RIVER DAY 7: MOPTI BOBO DIOULASSAO ( Burkina Faso) Free morning for the last purchasing and lunch at Mopti In the evening, after a long course and checks at the frontier, we arrive in the capital of west African traditional music with its avenues characterized by enormous mango-trees. Lodging.

80. Religious Freedom Page People Population 10,623,323 (July 1996 est.) Age structure 0 Mossi about 24%, Gurunsi, Senufo, lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani Religions indigenous beliefs 40 http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/nationprofiles/Burkina_Faso/dem.html

Key Demographic Features of Burkina Faso* Geography Location: Western Africa, north of Ghana Map references: Africa People Population: 10,623,323 (July 1996 est.) Age structure: -14 years: 48% (male 2,569,806; female 2,537,106) -64 years: 49% (male 2,444,601; female 2,738,726) 65 years and over: 3% (male 145,479; female 187,605) (July 1996 est.) Population growth rate: 2.53% (1996 est.) Infant mortality rate: 117.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1996 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 43.21 years male: 43.46 years female: 42.95 years (1996 est.) Ethnic divisions: Mossi about 24%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani Religions: indigenous beliefs 40%, Muslim 50%, Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) 10% Languages: French (official), tribal languages belonging to Sudanic family, spoken by 90% of the population Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1995 est.) total population: male: female: Government Country Abbreviation: UV Type of government: parliamentary Independence: 5 August 1960 (from France) National holiday: Anniversary of the Revolution, 4 August (1983)

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