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Joseph Ki-Zerbo

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Joseph Ki-Zerbo (June 21, 1922 – December 4, 2006, Burkina Faso) was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer. [1]

54 relations: Abdoulaye Wade, Africa, Africultures, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, Atlantic slave trade, Baccalauréat, Bamako, Blaise Compaoré, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Charles de Gaulle, Cheikh Anta Diop, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Colonization, Conakry, Coup d'état, Dakar, Didier Ruef, Faladié, French Upper Volta, Ghana, Guinea, Honorary degree, Human development (humanity), Human rights, Imperialism, Italy, Kadiogo Province, Koumi, Nagano, Kwame Nkrumah, Mali, Maurice Yaméogo, National Liberation Movement (Upper Volta), Nayala Province, Orléans, Paris, Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party, Philosophy, Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, Reparations for slavery, Republic of Upper Volta, Right Livelihood Award, Sciences Po, Senegal, Socialism, Sorbonne University, Thomas Sankara, Toma, Burkina Faso, UNESCO, ..., United States of Africa, University of Ouagadougou, University of Padua, Volta-Bani War. Expand index (4 more) »

Abdoulaye Wade

Abdoulaye Wade (born 29 May 1926), Encyclopedia of the Nations.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Africultures

Africultures is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas, founded in 1996 and based in France, in Les Pilles and Paris.

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Ahmed Sékou Touré

Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Ahmed Sheku Turay) (January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader who was elected as the first President of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984.

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Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights

The Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights was an annual human rights prize founded by the Libyan People's Congress in late 1988, in "indebtedness and gratitude for Muammar Gaddafi and in appreciation for his role in firmly establishing the principle of direct democracy, his persistent struggle, his distinctive inspiration and continuous instigation for the consolidation of human liberty and for issuing the Great Green Document in the era of the masses, for the purpose of bestowing tribute upon symbolic figures of struggle and faith in the values of freedom to all humans, nations, groups and individuals".

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.

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Baccalauréat

The baccalauréat, often known in France colloquially as bac, is an academic qualification that French students take after high school.

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Bamako

Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a population of 1.8 million (2009 census, provisional).

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Blaise Compaoré

Blaise Compaoré (born 3 February 1951)Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders (2003), page 76–77.

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Bobo-Dioulasso

Bobo-Dioulasso is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of about 537,728; it is the second largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France.

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Cheikh Anta Diop

Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture.

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Cheikh Anta Diop University

Cheikh Anta Diop University (Université Cheikh Anta Diop or UCAD), also known as the University of Dakar, is a university in Dakar, Senegal.

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Colonization

Colonization (or colonisation) is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components.

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Conakry

Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.

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Dakar

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

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Didier Ruef

Didier Ruef (born 1961) is a Swiss documentary photographer best known for his portrayal of Man & Waste, Africa, Man & Animals, Swiss Alpine Farmers and Contemporary Switzerland.

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Faladié

Faladié is a village and seat of the commune of N'Tjiba in the Cercle of Kati in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali.

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French Upper Volta

Upper Volta (Haute-Volta) was a colony of French West Africa established on 1 March 1919, from territories that had been part of the colonies of Upper Senegal and Niger and the Côte d'Ivoire.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Human development (humanity)

Human development is the science that seeks to understand how and why the people of all ages and circumstances change or remain the same over time.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is a policy that involves a nation extending its power by the acquisition of lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Kadiogo Province

Kadiogo is a province of Burkina Faso, located in its Centre Region.

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Koumi, Nagano

Lake Inako in Koumi is a town located in Minamisaku District in south-central Nagano Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.

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Maurice Yaméogo

Maurice Yaméogo (31 December 1921 – 15 September 1993) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, from 1959 until 1966.

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National Liberation Movement (Upper Volta)

The National Liberation Movement (Mouvement de Libération Nationale, MLN) was a political party in Burkina Faso.

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Nayala Province

Nayala is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso and is in Boucle du Mouhoun Region.

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Orléans

Orléans is a prefecture and commune in north-central France, about 111 kilometres (69 miles) southwest of Paris.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party

The Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party (Parti pour la Démocratie et le Progrès / Parti Socialiste) is a political party in Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta).

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Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

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Rassemblement Démocratique Africain

The Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, commonly known as the RDA and variously translated as African Democratic Assembly and African Democratic Rally, was a political party in French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa which was important in the decolonization of the French empire.

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Reparations for slavery

Reparations for slavery is the idea that some form of compensatory payment needs to be made to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

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Republic of Upper Volta

The Republic of Upper Volta (République de Haute-Volta), now Burkina Faso, was a landlocked West African country established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community.

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Right Livelihood Award

The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, and is presented annually in early December.

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Sciences Po

The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Paris), commonly referred as Sciences Po, is a highly selective French university (legally a grande école).

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Sorbonne University

Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Université) is a public research university in Paris, France, established by fusion in 2018 of Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University.

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Thomas Sankara

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé pro-people revolutionary, Marxist, pan-Africanist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

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Toma, Burkina Faso

Toma is a town located in the province of Nayala in Burkina Faso.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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United States of Africa

The United States of Africa is a proposed concept for a federation of some or all of the 55 sovereign states on the African continent.

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University of Ouagadougou

Founded in 1974, the University of Ouagadougou (UO; Université de Ouagadougou) is in the area of Dagnöen Nord (pronounced dag-no-en noor) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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University of Padua

The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy.

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Volta-Bani War

The Volta-Bani War was an anti-colonial rebellion which took place in French West Africa (now Burkina Faso and Mali) between 1915 and 1917.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ki-Zerbo

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