8/21/2023 0 Comments Upper volta religionThomas Isidore Noël Sankara, the son of a soldier of the colonial army turned civil servant, grew up, in the course of his father’s assignments in the countryside, in contact with the people but shielded from its misery. Sankara, the Shaping of a Political Subject Health and education equipment, even for the very low standards of the region, remained particularly scarce and inadequate to satisfy the needs of a growing population. Since its constitution as a colony within French West Africa in 1919, the Upper Volta was a disenfranchised territory, considered by the colonial apparatus to be a reserve of forced labor and agricultural workers for the great coffee and cocoa plantations of neighboring Côte d’Ivoire. This peasantry had to subsist on difficult soils, faced rampant desertification, and the degradation of the terms of the cotton trade, the young nation’s main source of currency. Out of the seven million inhabitants of the country, six million belonged to the peasantry. 98 percent of its population was illiterate and its GDP per capita was just over 100 dollars of the time. They constitute 1% of the population and many times are considered non-existent.In 1983, 23 years after its independence and the succession of several neo-colonial regimes, the Upper Volta was one of the most materially destitute countries in the world. Atheists always argue from the Philosophical, Social, and Historical approaches of lack of substantial evidence to the existence of a god. Atheism or AgnosticismĪtheism is general sense is the rejection of existing deities or religious beliefs, and often the criticism of religion. Protestants are generally against the teaching of the Roman Catholic teachings and majorly based in either Ouagadougou as well as Bobo-Dioulasso. Protestant Christianity in Burkina Faso is the minority religion as it constitutes only 5.5% of the entire population. Even though there has been an adherence and a general acceptance of the beliefs, the traditional African believers constitute 11.3% of the entire population. With the arrival of the Muslims and the colonialists in the now Burkina Faso led to the amalgamation of either Christianity or Islam alongside these beliefs. The traditional African beliefs majorly are the various traditional religion and beliefs like the belief in spirits and a supreme creator, veneration of the dead, traditional medicine among others. Traditional African Religions and Folk Beliefs Roman Catholic Church in the country is part of the worldwide Catholicism mainly based in Rome, and they constitute 19% of the entire country’s population. A missionary assisted in the establishment of Catholicism firmly in the country and between 19 catholic missions had already been established. Roman Catholicism developed in the Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) with the arrival of the French Colonialists in 1896. The Muslims in the country constitute 61.1% of the entire population The Muslims were considered part of the Mossi Kingdom, and Islam spread through the entire Upper Volta region, Ivory Coast, and Guinea and it was promoted through the construction of Mosques, Muslim festivals, and the media. As a result of these changes and developments, it attracted the Muslim merchants who established their settlements there and intermarriages between them, and local women took place hence a transformation of the locals. This practise changed in the 15 th century when the Upper Volta region opened trading centers like Akan gold field which enabled the merchants to trade in gold, kola nuts, and salt. In the 11 th century, the Mossi kingdoms had occupied the Upper Volta (also Burkina Faso) protected their religious and traditional beliefs from external influences, especially from the northwestern Muslims. We are going to take a look at the various religious groups in the country. There are ten large cities, and more than fifty other towns in the country hence is an urbanized country though not fully. It was colonized by the French until 1960 when they gained independence thus is a francophone country as French is its official language. Being a landlocked country, it is surrounded by six countries, Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Ghana. Burkina Faso is a country in the western part of Africa covering an area of 105,900 square kilometers with a general population of 17.3 million.
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