Dear Richard:
I appreciate your putting Burkina on the radar of the community, especially
given that most Americans would not be able to place the country on a map.
That said, Interestingly enough, on Thursday and for a brief period of
time, Burkina Faso was surprisingly a trending topic on
As a recap, about 1 year ago a popular uprising called Balai Citoyen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Balai_Citoyen
started by rappers and tech activists in Ouagadougou got
a lot of the population in the street to protest moves
by the President to prolong his 27 years in office.
Ouagadougou is
