Regions / Africa / Burkina Faso

In 1984, President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Sankara was perhaps the last ‘Third World’ politician, a revolutionary Marxist who felt a ‘special solidarity uniting the three continents of Asia, Latin America and Africa’.

Chris Brazier's full interview with François Moné, the village's latest Chief.

Mariama’s sons are all trying to make their way in the wider world. But how do you explain to Africans that the rich world is now shutting its doors to migrants?

When rich and poor worlds collide, money is inevitably a problem.

The latest instalment in the lives of Adama, his four co-wives and their 26 children.

Former military pilot François Moné has taken on the traditional role of Chief. He explains how he is using this to pursue the development of the village.

A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming; technology; and women.

How the village has grown - and some facts about how things have changed.

Chris Brazier returns to the village in Burkina Faso that he has visited every 10 years since helping to make a film there in 1985.

Chris Brazier returns every decade to produce a New Internationalist magazine on the country. He has produced three magazines and is currently researching his fourth. In this blog, Chris recalls the night he flew into the midst of a revolution and discovered he had made a serious error.

Child miners are finding an unlikely escape from goldmines, through football, writes Rebecca Cooke.

Stories that didn't make the mainstream media in 2014.

Until the beginning of this year, the West African nation seemed like an island of calm in a troubled region. Then everything changed...