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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Appearance. move to sidebar hide. This is a list of notable artists from, or associated with, Burkina ... Burkina Faso K ...
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Burkinabe artist Barack La Voix D'or is a contemporary artist blending traditional Mande styles with modern afrobeat. More recently, modern musicians in Burkina Faso are beginning to incorporate more foreign influences into their music, especially those from the United States, with genres such as hip-hop , rap , salsa and techno entering the ...
The Lobi people live in southwestern Burkina Faso and northern Ivory Coast and Ghana. They are extremely resistant to any sort of centralized political authority. Instead their communities are based on the laws of God. The central character in every Lobi community is the religious specialist named the Thildar. Lobi artist with a carved stool, 1984
The following list of Senegalese artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Senegal, of Senegalese descent or who produce works that are primarily about Senegal.
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Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara (born 1959), president of the Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Movement party and 2005 Burkina Faso presidential candidate; Thomas Sankara (1949–1987), first President of Burkina Faso serving from 1984 to 1987, also president of Upper Volta from 1983 to 1984; Thomas Sanon (born 1947), businessman, politician, diplomat
The culture of Burkina Faso in West Africa is also called the Burkinabé culture. Two key elements of culture in Burkina Faso (a country once known as Upper Volta) are its indigenous masks and dancing. The masks used in this region of the western Sahel are made for rites of sacrifice to gods and animal spirits in the villages. Native dance, on ...