Colonization in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a country that used to be called Upper Volta. After a while though, the name was changed to Burkina. Although nowadays, it’s called Burkina Faso.

Anyway, enough history. Was colonization in Burkina Faso a good thing, or was it a bad thing. The answer would be obvious after you read this. I guess that the only positive aspect of colonization in Burkina Faso would be that they learned a new language. But everything else was and still is a bad thing for this country.

One of the main reasons that colonization in Burkina Faso was a bad thing is that they were used as slaves starting in the late 1800’s when the French invaded. However, the French had no single interest in the country whatsoever. Apart from the slaves of course. This meaning that the French didn’t put any power lines, phone booths, railroads, roads, or anything in the country. And believe it or not, there’s more.

Burkina Faso used to be one of the strongest countries of Africa. This meaning that they could just chase away any foreign people out of their country easily. But, when the Maxim gun was introduced to the people of Burkina Faso, it was a different story. Although the French came and crumpled Burkina Faso, it doesn’t mean that they weren’t powerful still. They were powerful in a sense. They were powerful as being part of the mighty country France.

Burkina Faso helped France a lot. First of all they helped France do all the chores clean their nails, cut their nails etc. But they also helped France conquer a lot of other countries. These countries include Sudan, Ivory Coast and more. But of course, Burkina Faso didn’t really have a choice. They didn’t want at fight at all.

So overall colonization in Burkina Faso was a bad thing because of slavery, lack of helping the country and just plain old weakening the country.