Timeline of Ouagadougou

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century[]

  • 1896 - 5 September: Ouagadougou taken by French forces; city burned.[1]

20th century[]

View of Ouagadougou, 1970s
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History of Burkina Faso
Flag of Burkina Faso
Bura
Bura-Asinda		 Prehistoric
c. 3rd–13th century
Mossi Kingdoms c. 11th century – 1896
Kong Empire c. 1710 – 1898
French Upper Volta
1919–1932
1947–1958
Republic 1958–1984
Burkina Faso
(1984–present)
Agacher Strip War 1985
Assassination of Sankara 1987
Compaoré rule 1987–2014
Burkinabè revolution 2014
Transitional period 2014–2015
Burkinabé coup d'état 2015
2015 elections and aftermath 2015–present
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21st century[]

Aerial view of Ouagadougou, 2007

See also[]

  • Ouagadougou history (de, fr)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Johnson 2010.
  2. ^ "France: Africa: French West Africa and the Sahara: Colony of the Upper Volta". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 895–903 – via Internet Archive. Ouaga-dougou
  3. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Burkina Faso". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161. Upper Volta
  5. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279. Upper Volta
  6. ^ "Western and Central Sudan, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sweco; Nordic Consulting Group (2003), Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links (PDF), 2: Description of Corridors, African Development Bank and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  8. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  9. ^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
  10. ^ "Burkina Faso: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
  11. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2004. United Nations Statistics Division.
  12. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  13. ^ "Burkina Faso Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Mairie centrale de Ouagadougou: Armand Béouindé installé dans ses fonctions", Le Pays (in French), Ouagadougou, 1 July 2016

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

in English
  • Elliott Percival Skinner (1974). African Urban Life: the Transformation of Ouagadougou. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-03095-1.
  • Sylvy Jaglin (1994). "Why Mobilize Town Dwellers?: Joint Management in Ouagadougou, 1983-1990". Environment and Urbanization. 6.
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
  • David P. Johnson, Jr. (2010). "Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195337709.
  • Stephanie Dos Santos; Thomas LeGrand (2013). "Is the Tap Locked? An Event History Analysis of Piped Water Access in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso". Urban Studies. 50 (6): 1292. doi:10.1177/0042098012462613.
  • Antoni Folkers; Iga Perzyna, eds. (2017). Beeker Method: planning and working on the redevelopment of the African City. African Studies Centre Leiden. hdl:1887/47176. ISBN 9789054481607. Free to read (Includes articles about Ouagadougou)
in French

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