Talk:List of heads of state of Burkina Faso

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I wonder why Blaise Compaoré is not Président in that list ? Ericd 23:11, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This is still inexact for reference see http://www.google.fr/search?q=cache:jdF7al3TlKAJ:www.primature.gov.bf/burkina/histoire/gdates.htm+Ouezzin+Coulibaly&hl=fr or http://www.primature.gov.bf/burkina/histoire/gdates.htm+Ouezzin+Coulibaly&hl=fr Ericd 01:20, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Many Thanks
Many thanks to all those who have contributed to the enhancing of the information - much appreciated - I think it is looking good.

Regarding the status change in 1984 - according to http://flagspot.net/flags/bf.html and other sources the country was briefly Bourkina-Fasso (the French version) before becoming Burkina Faso - though this needs more corroboration.

Also - there is a discrepancy where some offices are given in French, a temptation which I have largely resisted myself as this is the English Wikipedia - however I have not unilaterally altered this in case I caused offence

Thanks again to you all, --JohnArmagh 06:45, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Link pasted for reference. I have no time to analyze and command yet : http://www.burkinabedumonde.org/circulaire.php Ericd 08:17, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC) http://perso.club-internet.fr/kibare/bproj5aa.htm

About Burkina Faso vs. Bourkina Fasso : This is all about pronounciation.

To clarify the situation :

The French "u" as no equivalent in English (and many other languages too) it pronounce like the German "ü". In French "ou" will correspond to "oo" or "ou" in English... A "s" between two vovels will pronounce "z" in French, I think it's the same in English.

Thomas Sankara issued a decree renaming the country "Burkina Faso" using the standard transcription of Mooré and Dioula in Roman alphabet.

With this transcription "u" will be pronounced like the French "ou" and "s" like "s" not "z".

The decree was written in French and Sankara precised that Burkina Faso should be pronouced like "Bourkina Fasso". It's important to know than most people were illiterate in BF, and the vast majority of those who have learned to write have learned to write French, very few people were able to read of write good Mooré or Dioula. Thus a lot of civil servants heard "Bourkina Fasso" and wrote it the French way "Bourkina Fasso". A few day later the administration issued an instruction to write Burkina Faso.

Ericd 14:25, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Tenure date
Tenure date are wrong--Chiappinik 17:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Then correct them and cite the sources. --JohnArmagh 19:52, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

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Election layout
Hey I am going to disagree with your disagreement. For one, I believe there to be a number of reasons why elections shouldn't be in the front, as I have attempted to explain here (Look at Election setup and onwards). Additionally, the only reason that elections are so prevalent in the front, is because Friendlyhistorian keeps changing them (from the standard placement in the back), as he finds that placement "really funny" and that placement would...result in that placement? I would urge you to reconsider. Skjoldbro (talk) 17:02, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
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