Word: burkina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows what Africa would have become had it been left alone? In any case, Africa today is changeable and still shattering into new configurations. There is now a Burkina Faso, an Ivory Coast, a Kenya, a Nigeria, but the nation- state has been an imposition from the West, and a sometime thing. Once there was a Liberia (founded in the early 19th century by freed American slaves); now Liberia is splintered in feudal fashion. There are two Sudans, each at war with the other...
...Block. "We're a less bizarre, more palatable brand of music," Wodlinger says. "There is a good, positive response from parents." Her biggest market may lie overseas, where Hit Video USA has signed licensing deals with stations or cable systems in 20 countries, including Japan, Israel, Bulgaria and Burkina Faso...
...class at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass. That question is typical of the brainteasers he tosses out to his tribe throughout the school year in an effort to teach them what the world looks like. By June, the answer is as obvious as, say, the capital of Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou...
DICK TRACY. Forget the marketing campaign, which has blitzed everyone this side of Burkina Faso. Forget Warren Beatty's reputation as an indefatigable Don Juan. Just plunk down your money and enjoy a suave, splendid movie romance...
...after hearing that Doe was about to try him on charges of embezzling $900,000, he fled to the U.S. He was arrested near Boston and held for extradition but escaped from jail and found his way back to Africa. In recent years he has lived in Burkina Faso and has visited Libya, where he and his original group of about 15 rebels received military training...