Politics● LowOct 22 · Oct 22, 2026, 4:40 PM
Burkina Faso is "a small country", "poor" and "landlocked": these expressions you will no longer find in Burkinabe school textbooks.
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from BBC Afrique · Sub-Saharan Africa
Depuis la rentrée scolaire le 1er octobre 2026, les autorités burkinabè ont amorcé un processus de « décolonisation » de l'histoire enseignée dans son système éducatif.
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