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Ouagadougou was founded possibly as early as 1050 CE by the Soninke Wangara diaspora from the Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadu. The name Wagadugu means 'home of the Wagu', the Soninke subgroup that ruled Ghana. [4][5] Ouagadougou is a Francophone spelling of this name. The Mossi people, moving north in the 14th century, conquered Wagadugu ...
Burkina Faso[a] is a landlocked country in West Africa, [6] bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km 2 (105,878 sq mi). In 2021, the country had an estimated population of approximately 23,674,480. [14]
Ouagadougou, Capital of Burkina Faso Bobo-Dioulasso, the 2nd largest city. ... Here is a list of cities and towns in Burkina Faso by population.
Centre [sɑ̃tʁ] is one of Burkina Faso 's 13 administrative regions. The population of Centre Province was 1,727,390 at the 2006 census and increased by 75.6% in 13 years to 3,030,384 at the 2019 census (provisional figure), of which 50.8% was female. [3][4] It is the most populous and urbanised region in Burkina Faso; in 2019 14.8% of ...
Ouagadougou Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Ouagadougou (French: Cathédrale de l'Immaculée-Conception de Ouagadougou) is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ouagadougou in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. It was built in the 1390s, by apostolic vicar Joanny Thévenoud from the White Fathers ...
List of rulers of Wogodogo. The mogho naba[a] of Wogodogo is the ruler ("king of the world") of Wogodogo, one of the Mossi Kingdoms located in present-day Burkina Faso. The kingdom takes its name from its historic capital, now the Burkinabe national capital of Ouagadougou. Although the most politically powerful of the Mossi Kingdoms, there was ...
Burkina Faso is a multilingual country. An estimated 70 languages are spoken there, of which about 66 are indigenous. [1] Mooré is spoken by about 52.5% of the population, mainly in the central region around the capital, Ouagadougou.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ... City becomes capital of independent Burkina Faso. [7] 1961 Population: 59,126 ...