Burkina Fasoan

English

Etymology

From Burkina Faso +‎ -an.

Adjective

Burkina Fasoan (comparative more Burkina Fasoan, superlative most Burkina Fasoan)

1. (rare) Of or from Burkina Faso.
   • 1995, Study on Legislation Related to Regulations Organs in the Field of Broadcasting in West Africa:

     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, The British Herpetological Society Bulletin, page 26:

     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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   • 2015, Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni, Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance, volumes two (Caribbean and African American Contributions), Langaa RPCIG, →ISBN, page 522:

     It was this inspiration and hope that Sankara gave the youths of Africa and Pan Africanist like me that inspired me to compose this poem and song in his honour and that of Bamuni, my Burkina Fasoan Friend who graduated from the University of the Sorbonne in Journalism and mass Communication, and was invited by Thomas Sankara to go home and become part of his new revolutionary government, who was also assassinated with him titled: Thomas Sankara The African Nationalist […]

Synonyms

• Burkinabe

Noun

Burkina Fasoan (plural Burkina Fasoans)

1. (rare) A person from Burkina Faso.
   • 2005, Yurii Andrukhovych, translated by Michael M. Naydan, Perverzion, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     […] 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, […]”

   • 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:

     Burkina Fasoans use the plant for malaria (UPW).

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

     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.

Synonyms

• Burkinabe

References

• Loreto Todd (1997) The Cassell Dictionary of English Usage, Cassell, →ISBN, page 66: “An inhabitant of the West African republic (formerly Upper Volta) is a ‘Burkina Fasoan’; the derived adjective is the same.”
• Library of Congress Subject Headings, 30th edition, volumes I (A–C), Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2007, page 1018: “Burkina Fasoan . . . / USE subject headings beginning with or qualified by the word Burkinabe, e.g. Burkinabe literature; Art, Burkinabe / Burkina Fasoans / USE Burkinabe”