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Burkina Fasoan
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English
Etymology
From en Burkina Faso an.
Adjective
1
en rare Of or from Burkina Faso.
en Study on Legislation Related to Regulations Organs in the Field of Broadcasting in West Africa 1995 Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority".
en The British Herpetological Society Bulletin 1995 26 In the light of some new findings the Burkina Fasoan records of Phrynobatrachus francisci and P. natalensis are now regarded P. c.f. latifrons Ahl.1924 and P. c.f. francisci (Boulenger, 1912) respectively.
en Bill Swainson Encarta Book of Quotations New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Press 2000 822 https://archive.org/details/encartabookofquo00swai/page/822/mode/1up 0-312-23000-1 Sankara, Thomas (1950–87) Burkina Fasoan soldier and president
en Michael Pennock Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality Notre Dame, Ind. w:Ave Maria Press 2001 238 https://archive.org/details/yourlifeinchrist0000penn/page/238/mode/1up 0-87793-949-7 We should see in every prostitute an accusing finger pointing firmly at society as a whole. —Thomas Sankara, Burkina Fasoan President, March 8, 1987
en Mark Cousins The Story of Film New York, N.Y. Thunder’s Mouth Press 2004 432 and 497 1-56025-612-5 One of the youngest of the plethora of new African filmmakers was the Burkina Fasoan Idrissa Ouedraogo. Burkina Fasoan cinema
en G. A. Mohr The War of the Sexes: Women Are Getting on Top w:Xlibris 2012 978-1-4797-3600-3 On the sex industry Burkina Fasoan President Thomas Sankara made a seemingly religious-based statement:
en Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance two (Caribbean and African American Contributions) Langaa RPCIG 2015 522 9789956762309 It was this inspiration and hope that Sankara gave the youths of Africa and Pan Africanist like me that inspired me to compose this poem and song in his honour and that of Bamuni, my Burkina Fasoan Friend who graduated from the University of the Sorbonne in Journalism and mass Communication, and was invited by Thomas Sankara to go home and become part of his new revolutionary government, who was also assassinated with him titled: Thomas Sankara The African Nationalist
Synonyms
en Burkinabe
Translations
of or from Burkina Faso Burkinabe
Noun
1
en rare A person from Burkina Faso.
en w:Yurii Andrukhovych Michael M. Naydan Perverzion w:Northwestern University Press 2005 26 0-8101-1963-3 Indonesians, Kurds, Pakistanis (or maybe Palestinians), and Albanians, too, Bosnians, Moors, and Khmer, among which there were, categorically, Haitians, Tahitians, Cretans, Cypriots, Congolese, Bangladeshis, Côte d’Ivoirians, and Burkina Fasoans, and all of them entirely not too badly bore this most complex of melodies, uttering something like, “Di herbal gaadín a di Joiman gate stan before wi and be wid wi, mek we knife fall an fill all a wi—wid a young son a big fish,”
en w:James A. Duke; Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin; Andrea R. Ottesen Duke’s Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America Boca Raton, Fla.; London; New York, N.Y. w:CRC Press 2009 7 978-1-4200-4316-7 Burkina Fasoans use the plant for malaria (UPW).
en Dominic Johnson God is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human w:Oxford University Press 2016 94 and 125 978-0-19-989563-2 Whether people are concerned with God (like Christians), gods (like the Egyptians of antiquity), ancestors (like the Burkina Fasoans), or spirits (like the ancient Hawaiians), supernatural consequences tend to result from behavior that is perceived as “good” or “bad” for the community as a whole (and also often for the individuals themselves). Ancestors can still haunt the lives of atheists just as they do for Hawaiians or Burkina Fasoans.
Synonyms
en Burkinabe
Translations
person from Burkina Faso Burkinabe
References
en Loreto Todd The Cassell Dictionary of English Usage Cassell 1997 66 https://archive.org/details/casselldictionar0000todd/page/66/mode/1up 0-304-34446-X An inhabitant of the West African republic (formerly Upper Volta) is a ‘Burkina Fasoan’; the derived adjective is the same.
en Library of Congress Subject Headings 30th Washington, D.C. Library of Congress 2007 I (A–C) 1018 Burkina Fasoan . . . / USE subject headings beginning with or qualified by the word Burkinabe, e.g. Burkinabe literature; Art, Burkinabe / Burkina Fasoans / USE Burkinabe