Burkina Fasoan

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1. rareOf or from Burkina Faso.

   Sankara, Thomas (1950–87) Burkina Fasoan soldier and president

   2000, Bill Swainson, editor, Encarta Book of Quotations, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 822

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   Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority".

   1995, Study on Legislation Related to Regulations Organs in the Field of Broadcasting in West Africa

   In the light of some new findings the Burkina Fasoan records of Phrynobatrachus francisci and P. natalensis are now regarded P. c.f. latifrons Ahl.1924 and P. c.f. francisci (Boulenger, 1912) respectively.

   1995, The British Herpetological Society Bulletin, page 26

   We should see in every prostitute an accusing finger pointing firmly at society as a whole. […] —Thomas Sankara, Burkina Fasoan President, March 8, 1987

   2001, Michael Pennock, Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality, Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, →ISBN, page 238

   One of the youngest of the plethora of new African filmmakers was the Burkina Fasoan Idrissa Ouedraogo. […] Burkina Fasoan cinema

   2004, Mark Cousins, The Story of Film, New York, N.Y.: Thunder’s Mouth Press, →ISBN, pages 432 and 497

   On the sex industry Burkina Fasoan President Thomas Sankara made a seemingly religious-based statement: […]

   2012, G. A. Mohr, The War of the Sexes: Women Are Getting on Top, Xlibris, →ISBN

plural Burkina Fasoans

1. rareA person from Burkina Faso.

   Burkina Fasoans use the plant for malaria (UPW).

   2009, James A. Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R. Ottesen, Duke’s Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America, Boca Raton, Fla.; London; New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7

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   […] Indonesians, Kurds, Pakistanis (or maybe Palestinians), and Albanians, too, Bosnians, Moors, and Khmer, among which there were, categorically, Haitians, Tahitians, Cretans, Cypriots, Congolese, Bangladeshis, Côte d’Ivoirians, and Burkina Fasoans, and all of them entirely not too badly bore this most complex of melodies, uttering something like, “Di herbal gaadín a di Joiman gate stan before wi and be wid wi, mek we knife fall an fill all a wi—wid a young son a big fish,[…]”

   2005, Yurii Andrukhovych, translated by Michael M. Naydan, Perverzion, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 26

   Whether people are concerned with God (like Christians), gods (like the Egyptians of antiquity), ancestors (like the Burkina Fasoans), or spirits (like the ancient Hawaiians), supernatural consequences tend to result from behavior that is perceived as “good” or “bad” for the community as a whole (and also often for the individuals themselves). […] Ancestors can still haunt the lives of atheists just as they do for Hawaiians or Burkina Fasoans.

   2016, Dominic Johnson, God is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 94 and 125