Burkina Faso 8600 km

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classmates become their port of safety, joy and...

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal...

Ouagadougou – Portraits of Gods (1992) explores contemporary Burkina Faso through the intertwined journeys of two Burkinabè men and a...

In the African nation of Burkina Faso, drums such as the djembe are more than a simple instrument; they have long been used for communication and...

African masks in performance: The spectacular masks of the Winiama people in the rural village of Ouri, in Burkina Faso, perform to reenact the...

October 2014. Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is the scene of an unarmed uprising that ousts the dictator in power since 1987 and later...

Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his...

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This...

BURKINABÈ RISING: the art of resistnace in Burkina Faso showcases creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso. A small, landlocked country...