


|c International Council on Monuments and Sites 1 2 Before becoming autonomous, it had been part of the French Union as the French Upper Volta. The article includes photographs, ground plans, sections, and elevations of houses, with very detailed captions. The Republic of Upper Volta ( French: Rpublique de Haute-Volta) was a landlocked West African country established on 11 December 1958 as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Yaws treatment campaigns had been realized from 1957 to 1960 in South-West of Upper-Volta with very good results (prevalence: 0.06 - 1960). The Cold War BBC2 Correspondent BBC2 The Soviet Union was famously described as 'Upper Volta with rockets', a catchphrase that was updated by the geographically precise to become 'Burkina Faso with. This article, which is a part of a study of Gurunsi houses made in Upper Volta (today, Burkina Faso) for this journal, deals with a type of dwelling now tending to disappear. |a Traditional architecture in Africa was so designed as to be absolutely suited to climatic conditions and to a local way of life. I was being assigned as branch servant to supervise the preaching work in the Gold Coast, Togoland (now Togo), Ivory Coast (now Côte d’Ivoire), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and The Gambia.Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and The Gambia.
