![]() ![]() This release effort resulted in yet another military coup d'état on August 4, 1983.Īfter the coup, Sankara formed the National Council for the Revolution (CNR), with himself as President. The internal political struggle and Sankara's leftist rhetoric led to his arrest and subsequent efforts to bring about his release, directed by Captain Blaise Compaoré. The CSP continued to ban political parties and organizations, yet promised a transition to civilian rule and a new constitution.įactional infighting developed between moderates in the CSP and radicals led by Captain Thomas Sankara, who was appointed prime minister in January 1983. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation (CSP). ![]() ![]() Colonel Zerbo established the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress as the supreme governmental authority, thus eradicating the 1977 constitution.Ĭolonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Lamizana's government faced problems with the country's traditionally powerful trade unions and on November 25, 1980, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup. After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978. Lamizana remained in power throughout the 1970s as president of military or mixed civil-military governments. The army remained in power for 4 years on June 14, 1970, the Voltans ratified a new constitution that established a 4-year transition period toward complete civilian rule. The government lasted until 1966 when - after much unrest including mass demonstrations and strikes by students, labor unions, and civil servants - the military intervened.Ī military coup deposed Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers. Soon after coming to power, Yaméogo banned all political parties other than the UDV. ![]() The 1960 constitution provided for election by universal suffrage of a president and a national assembly for 5-year terms. The first president, Maurice Yaméogo, was the leader of the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV). Subjects History Chief executive Territorial hierarchy Form and rules of government Traditional history External relations Ethnic stratification Status, role, and prestige Territorial hierarchy Lineages Sacred objects and places Family Marriage Community structure culture Mossi HRAF PubDate 2009 Region Africa Sub Region Western Africa Document Type Book Evaluation Ethnologist-5 Analyst John Beierle 1965-1968 Coverage Date 1481-1957 Coverage Place Burkina Faso Notes Elliott Percival Skinner Includes bibliographical references(p.The Republic of Upper Volta declared independence on 5 August 1960. For lack of available information on the 'Ninisi,' an aboriginal people living in the Upper Volta area prior to the coming of the Mossi, information on this group has been subsumed under Mossi (FA28). The last three chapters of this work present a culture history of Mossi-European relations, and the resulting changes taking place in Mossi political structure as the result of the European conquest of these people. Additional information may also be found on law and judicial procedures, economic foundations, and religion and government. Particular emphasis in this source is on the Mogho Naba (the supreme chief or emperor of the Mossi), his household, ministers, and various territorial chiefs (e.g., provincial, district and village chiefs), and the various levels of interaction between them. The field work was further supplemented by data gathered from various government documents and ethnographies on the Mossi. The author gathered his data in the Upper Volta Republic between November 1955 and January 1957, a period during which many important political changes were taking place in this region, and most of the field work was done in the territory formerly included in the kingdom of Ouagadougou, although short visits were also made to the Yatenga, Tenkodogo, and Boussouma regions. AbstractThis document presents an intensive study of the political development of the Mossi people, a Sudanese negroid group occupying the Republic of the Upper Volta, West Africa. Book The Mossi of the Upper Volta: the political development of a Sudanese people Stanford University Press ![]()
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