Maybe interesting to know: Thomas Sankara was the one who renamed the country from upper volta to Burkina Faso. He also achieved food self-sufficienty, was the first head of state to promote women's rights and much more
@@Jarmint As a Finn, a citizen of Europe’s most forested country, I approve of this. Plant more trees 🌳🌲🌴! Also, vaccines don’t cause autism, just a heads-up for the tin-foil-hat people 💉.
Thomas Sankara "the revolutionary" as he's called here is one of the most admirable humans in history. Check him out if you're interested in Burkina Faso.
Thomas Sankara was a brilliant leader. Hell, along with Red Rosa, he's one of the few that even Tankies like. Frankly, Sankara was incredible. He prioritized Woman's rights. He banned female genitalia Mutilation, Forced Marriage, Polygamy, and lived in realitive squalor; donating much of his profits to the poor, taking only what he needed. He worked with the people, and helped the poor. A brilliant figure.
I was so looking forward to Burkina Faso because Thomas Sankara is one of my heroes. He is like the West African version of Patrice Lumumba (another hero of mine). I suggest that anyone interested in great revolutionaries read (or research) up on Thomas Sankara. He was a champion of the poor and his life was living proof of that.
@@hermeticxhaote4723 Well, he did a coup, (supported by the vast mayority of the people) so maybe yes, but he wasn't authoritarian. A good leader without a doubt
UPDATE: Oh great, literally ONE day after I uploaded this video Burkina Faso JUST experienced a military coup and the interim leaders have been detained RIGHT before elections. Come on Burkina Faso, you couldn't even wait ONE DAY to make my video outdated in information. Thanks
+Geography Now Oh that sucks. They were SO close to having an election, too. You're right, though ... ONE day afterwards?! Still, thanks for getting me interested in these topics. I saw this story online today and thought "I JUST learned about this yesterday!", thanks to you. :D
+Geography Now for larger countries ( those with populations greater than 100 million like China, India, US etc) could you split the video into parts, since there's a lot of ground to be covered in those videos.
+Jacon170 The channel is growing by approx 5,000 subs per week but whilst some channels have millions of subs only a small percentage watch all the videos, especially within the first couple of weeks. However, I'd estimate at least 80% of subs to this channel watch the videos within days of them being uploaded so whilst the numbers aren't huge the fan base is loyal, which IMO counts for more.
I'm Burkinabé and I found your video quite accurate. A few precisions tho.. Mandeka and Bambara are almost the same. it's a langage spoken in the West of Burkina, in Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea... with little variation depending on the region. And football (wich you call soccer) is still the most popular sport by far. no one watches rugby over here. The political transition was troubled by a military coup that lasted only two weeks after the people and most of the army opposed to it. so the elections were held in December instead of November, and won by Roch Kabore, a former parliament speaker.
Just googled Thomas Sankara... I don't know their history but at first, he looks like a great man who tried to be "of the people, by the people and for the people"... Is my first impression false? I'd love to have few comments from someone who is from Burkina Faso
Though in this case it wasn't "blood" specifically, I'm sure that blood was spilled during the revolution but still the red is referring to the revolution as a whole... Burkina Faso, you did well this time!
@@theramendutchman the red color is important for us more than the green and gold star in the middle of our flag it represents our blood that each burkinabe pour for our freedom u know
"And definitely not that offensive word that I know you're all thinking about and getting all 13-year old Japanese school-girl giggly about, BOB SAGET" - Paul 2015
Great video, you mention a lot of thing I didn't know and a lot of things that I didn't even know I didn't know… However, you should have highlighted the great paper Sankara played in Burkina Faso. Seriously, he was one of the best leaders in the history of humanity. I understand that this is geography, not history, but seriously, you should have mentioned at least some of his great actions for that country.
But he didn't mention the fact that Sankara put our natural juice and traditional clothes in international markets And he started to work with Russia and left France this is some of the reasons that blaise compaoré collaborate with French and kill him It's so criminal to do it to your best friend I forgot French is general language but many persons speak English too only in the city
Holy schnikes! Both the traditional and modern architecture in Burkina Faso is ridiculously cool. I'd love a house painted with that zigzaggy geometrical pattern.
Triple imbecile our architecture is different from the traditional it has signification for us and we are the only person who can say u stranger what it means so u're the ridiculous in this situation😒😒
Paul! One of your videos was shown in front my Importing/Exporting and Trading college class! Now I'm hooked to your videos! So far the only thing useful to come from that class haha.
+Geography Now in Argentina the word "FASO" means "Pot", "Joint", "Marijuana Cigarette", ... So there you have another funny word from this country, lol
The quality of the videos has improven so much! Maybe when he's half-way trough the list, he could re-master some of the bigger Names for each letter (Argentina, Austria, Brazil, and so on...) I know is a lot to ask, and it would be a long video, but he could do 1 minute per nation or something like that AND IT WOULD BE REALLY AWESOME!
+SuperQuiMan Definately Agree! So much production improvement since the Afgahnistan video. Afgahnistan could definately do with a remake, or an update, because there is so much to know about that amazing country. Even though the production quality of that video may not have been as good, it set out the lay out and standard for all the following vids. So it was still a great start, but yes, totally do remakes and updates. Love this channel.
+Aang Darkway You are not the only one, its interesting to see how other countries are ruled. But I think my own government has something to do with that. (I'm belgian.) Sooooo, yeah ;p
So, unofficially, Burkina Faso’s flag could also represent its physical features, as follows: 🟥Red = The Sahel Region (North; red dirt). 🟩Green = The forest region (South). ⭐️Yellow Star = The gold that’s mined in the country. 🇧🇫
I AM ALWAYS SO AMAZED BY YOUR WORK. I have been subscribed to this channel for quite some time (since the Belgium video, if I remember correctly.) and I can honestly with my hand on my heart say I've never been this interested in Geography. My own Geography teacher besides that is a living bedtime story for my long class naps, so I am incredibly thankful that everyone behind Geography Now! boozed my interest in this subject! Thank you. :D
In future go into detail about the ancient history like the first humans in the area and historical kingdoms. I wanna learn more about the Mossi kingdom. I'm just afraid he will skip the history of African or south America nations but talk about the Romans in Italy or the Celts in Britain and barely mention the Songhai of Mali or the Nubians of Egypt and Sudan.
You are an amazing youtuber and I just wanted to say thank you for doing this. I could easily tell that these video's take incredibly long to create and as a History/Geography fanatic just wanted to show you how much I love this.
+H. Leo actually it is probably because of deep religious beliefs that shame contraceptives. It's a serious problem in third world country's that lead to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in some countrys. Of course there's also the problem with a culture among young people that doesn't care about other people if they know they're gonna die anyways. But that is a different problem.
I have traveled a bit in West-Africa and found Burkina Faso to be one of the nicer countries. Addition: since a lot of geographic names are pretty long, people often use just the first half; Ouaga, Bobo, etc. Second addition: roads that are on the map, but do not lead to either Ouaga or Bobo, aren't there at all.
Normally, I think the ending would be seen as unprofessional, but cause your videos are so awesome, it was just funny and made this video more memorable than the last.
No the flag represent our identity Red for each burkinabe's blood pour for our freedom green for the forests and gold star for our treasure such as gold zinc ... Sorry because I've just seen this video
Rip those who recently passed away in the attack this wknd in this interesting country. Thanks for this series as I came to learn more about the country after it is in the news. N
my country Burkina Faso is an wonderful country with some amazing places. I invite you all over there when you are off to take some opportunity and have a great rest
Lol. Dat professionalism. What I like about Geography Now, for better or worse, is that Barby manages to make every place he talks about sound nice. He makes the world seem like a hopeful place. Maybe it's delusional, but it's also very comforting.
I just discovered this channel and I love it....thank you for making these videos! I started playing the map games on Seterra, which is making me curious about various countries.
10:54 I know this was posted 6 years ago, but, if the camera ran out of space and you knew that it had only a few space left (if you knew), then why did you film it on that one? Couldn't you just buy a new one?
hei Barby, really dig your videos man. Keep it up. Just one slight mentione. As of today, 17.09 burkina faso had had a military coup going on supporting the previous president who was in exile. Keep up the good work.
Hey Barby, I watched every video of you from the first one till the one about Bulgaria in 2 days and I love them all.I am going to do a important english presentation in 5/6 weeks (I live in germany) and I think that your channel is a good topic for it.So here is my question: Can I use screenshots from the videos for the presentation?There are only two teachers in front of me and it would make it much easier. Looking forward to new videos of you (especially germany and turkey) and just stay as you are now.I already learned a lot :D
Prehistoric period As for all of West Africa, Burkina Faso has experienced very early settlement, including hunter-gatherers in the northwestern part of the country (12,000 to 5,000 years before the Christian era), and of which tools (scrapers, chisels and tips) were discovered in 1973. Sedentarisation appeared between 3,600 and 2,600 before the Christian era with farmers, whose traces of construction have allowed to consider a relatively durable installation. The use of iron, ceramics and polished stone developed between 1500 and 1000 BC, as well as the emergence of spiritual concerns, as evidenced by the remains of burial discovered. Remains attributed to the Dogons have been discovered in the North Central, North and North-West regions. But they left the area between the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century to settle in the cliff of Bandiagara. In addition, remains of walls are located in southwestern Burkina Faso (and Côte d'Ivoire), but their builders have not been able to be identified with certainty. The ruins of Loropéni, located near the borders of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, are now recognized World Heritage site.
When we spoke about the African countries and capitals in class, really nobody was able to pronounce Ouagadougou 😂 Btw. When thinking about it, I would say their old flag wasn't the smartest choice 😂
Maybe interesting to know: Thomas Sankara was the one who renamed the country from upper volta to Burkina Faso. He also achieved food self-sufficienty, was the first head of state to promote women's rights and much more
Yes you're right he is the person who promote our juice dafani and put our traditional clothes in international markets
His focus on self reliance and his patriotism was unique as compared to many other African leaders
He also banned FGM, planted 10 million trees and vaccinated 2.5 million children against several diseases such as Yellow Fever.
@@Jarmint As a Finn, a citizen of Europe’s most forested country, I approve of this. Plant more trees 🌳🌲🌴! Also, vaccines don’t cause autism, just a heads-up for the tin-foil-hat people 💉.
@@viraat610 Self-reliance and patriotism; two most important ideals for a leader of a country to follow 👍🏻🇧🇫.
Thomas Sankara "the revolutionary" as he's called here is one of the most admirable humans in history. Check him out if you're interested in Burkina Faso.
Gerhard Thiel
Perhaps, but he was creating a place and ambient which would've made Burkinabe people of today deserve it.
c fedyszyn Maybe read about Sankara before you start slandering him with the "millions" murdered.
Normal Person definitely Sankara is one of the greatest icons in Africa and his ideas were way before his time. Him and Lumumba from Congo
He was killed by CIA.
Too bad he got into power the same way every other Marxist got into power. By violent overthrow of the previous regime.
No oil? Looks like America will not be bring Burkina Faso freedom and democracy anytime soon
I'm certain the people are so depressed about that
(sarcasm)
+Aviation lord lol typical brain dead commie
Another dumbass who believes in conspiracy theories
+Aviation lord It's a shame :Y
Ryan Herich Go to the Middle East and say that America fought for peace, not for oil and see what your first reaction is.
Thomas Sankara was a brilliant leader. Hell, along with Red Rosa, he's one of the few that even Tankies like.
Frankly, Sankara was incredible. He prioritized Woman's rights. He banned female genitalia Mutilation, Forced Marriage, Polygamy, and lived in realitive squalor; donating much of his profits to the poor, taking only what he needed. He worked with the people, and helped the poor.
A brilliant figure.
Sankara was a tankie. Marxist Leninist to the core. He opposed Anarchism too.
Aman thank god he didn’t go the anarchist route
@@Zhicano agreed.
@@Zhicano yeah because marxist leninism is a stable system that NEVER just reverts back to capitalism
@@Zhicano why?
Whoa can't wait for Zimbabwe
+Mahtlahtli stfu long live FSA
+EranShahr i can because we will declare war on Putin with kanye west as president faster
+EranShahr You're going to have to wait a while.
I can wait for the partially recognised nation of Zyugyzupis
+EranShahr omg it will take a REALLY lot of time. By the way, i want to see uruguay, so...
I was so looking forward to Burkina Faso because Thomas Sankara is one of my heroes. He is like the West African version of Patrice Lumumba (another hero of mine). I suggest that anyone interested in great revolutionaries read (or research) up on Thomas Sankara. He was a champion of the poor and his life was living proof of that.
Did he ever kill any innocent people directly or indirectly?
Golon Wes No he helped lead a revolution made for by the people
@@hermeticxhaote4723 Well, he did a coup, (supported by the vast mayority of the people) so maybe yes, but he wasn't authoritarian. A good leader without a doubt
such a shame he died, he was such a good person
UPDATE: Oh great, literally ONE day after I uploaded this video Burkina Faso JUST experienced a military coup and the interim leaders have been detained RIGHT before elections.
Come on Burkina Faso, you couldn't even wait ONE DAY to make my video outdated in information. Thanks
+Geography Now Oh that sucks. They were SO close to having an election, too. You're right, though ... ONE day afterwards?! Still, thanks for getting me interested in these topics. I saw this story online today and thought "I JUST learned about this yesterday!", thanks to you. :D
+Geography Now That's what you were talking about after the memory card filled up, right???? ;)
Conspiracy theory time, this video was the signal to start the military coup! :P
You had 1 job, Burkina. But wait....what if PAUL IS THE LEADER OF BURKINA FASO?!!!1!
The Bay id be up for that, long live King Paul!!!
At the end that really was an intense moment of transition
+King Tapyrr II LOL yeah, he says that in the end xD
+Mapattack Talking about such transitions.
Thomas Sankara. Great guy.
Vive Sankara!
Exactly
Vive Sankara! Слава Санкаре! Fittingly, in Finnish, the word ”Sankari” means: ”Hero” 🇧🇫.
Long live our country of Burkina Faso! Vive notre pays du Burkina Faso!
Hello man from Turkey :)
I actually didn't Burkina Faso exist until now
@@Mr.BigShot_38 damn that harsh
@@elmontessorimaick574 ikr
@@Mr.BigShot_38 ye lol
Who else was watching full screen and thought their monitor died?
+SilverAbsol me
+Queen Elizabeth The II me.
+SilverAbsol me
me
me
Love from Libya To Burkina faso 🇱🇾 ❤ 🇧🇫
Proud to be African! Proud to be Burkinabé! La Patrie ou la mort nous vaincrons✊🏾
💪🏿💪🏿
Of course blaise was run away during 30 and 31 October burkidi
Forget the whip, lets all do the ouagadougou.
+Andrew Smith LOL.
+Geography Now for larger countries ( those with populations greater than 100 million like China, India, US etc) could you split the video into parts, since there's a lot of ground to be covered in those videos.
+Vaishnavi Suresh I agree
+Vaishnavi Suresh No, because Brazil's already been made, and it's 200 million in pop, and it would be at least unfair :p
+Gibran Rosa he could make the videos longer than usual
Is anyone else surprised how Paul hadn't got 200,000 subs yet but creates awesome videos every time :)
+Jacon170 The channel is growing by approx 5,000 subs per week but whilst some channels have millions of subs only a small percentage watch all the videos, especially within the first couple of weeks. However, I'd estimate at least 80% of subs to this channel watch the videos within days of them being uploaded so whilst the numbers aren't huge the fan base is loyal, which IMO counts for more.
Im always waiting to watch new episodes
I was a sub since 3000 and that was like 4 months ago so this channel has grown incredibly fast
+Jacon170 the best channels don't always have the most subs.
+Jacon170 I subscribed after finishing this video. Hadn't seen this guy before but he has style.
I'm Burkinabé and I found your video quite accurate. A few precisions tho.. Mandeka and Bambara are almost the same. it's a langage spoken in the West of Burkina, in Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea... with little variation depending on the region. And football (wich you call soccer) is still the most popular sport by far. no one watches rugby over here. The political transition was troubled by a military coup that lasted only two weeks after the people and most of the army opposed to it. so the elections were held in December instead of November, and won by Roch Kabore, a former parliament speaker.
Just googled Thomas Sankara... I don't know their history but at first, he looks like a great man who tried to be "of the people, by the people and for the people"... Is my first impression false? I'd love to have few comments from someone who is from Burkina Faso
One of the greatest and honest leader ever but the French killed him because he was helping the people out of neo colonialism
He lead a bloodless coup and did everything he could to reverse French colonialism
Every African know the story
For a second I thought my computer was down.
Same.
I use a phone
same
This is very degrading, your tone, your choice of words and mocking.
Susu
Flags:
Red usually = blood
Green usually = agriculture/nature
Xander Smith blue: oceans white: peace
+Lebanon So Somali flag is ocean and peace?
Ocean definitely. Peace would be ironic tho...
Though in this case it wasn't "blood" specifically, I'm sure that blood was spilled during the revolution but still the red is referring to the revolution as a whole...
Burkina Faso, you did well this time!
@@theramendutchman the red color is important for us more than the green and gold star in the middle of our flag it represents our blood that each burkinabe pour for our freedom u know
Thomas Sankara was actually a good dude who really helped the country a lot, before being assassinated.
"And definitely not that offensive word that I know you're all thinking about and getting all 13-year old Japanese school-girl giggly about, BOB SAGET" - Paul 2015
+Max Roblox i don't get it, can you explain ?
+Gilberto Maestrello Watch Barby's video on Bahrain. That'll make it make more sense.
I'm not a native english speaker, also i don't even talk english well, so take it easy
I looks like a fried chicken leg
i dont understand the joke
Great video, you mention a lot of thing I didn't know and a lot of things that I didn't even know I didn't know… However, you should have highlighted the great paper Sankara played in Burkina Faso. Seriously, he was one of the best leaders in the history of humanity. I understand that this is geography, not history, but seriously, you should have mentioned at least some of his great actions for that country.
But he didn't mention the fact that Sankara put our natural juice and traditional clothes in international markets
And he started to work with Russia and left France this is some of the reasons that blaise compaoré collaborate with French and kill him
It's so criminal to do it to your best friend
I forgot French is general language but many persons speak English too only in the city
Holy schnikes! Both the traditional and modern architecture in Burkina Faso is ridiculously cool. I'd love a house painted with that zigzaggy geometrical pattern.
The Sindou rock pillars and the hump-shaped formations look curiously like the hoodoos and "big round red rocks" found in parts of southern Alberta.
Triple imbecile our architecture is different from the traditional it has signification for us and we are the only person who can say u stranger what it means so u're the ridiculous in this situation😒😒
I am Brazilian and always accompany these videos, I love geography and that way is even better !!
Such an intelligent man. I hated geography at school but now I wish you were my teacher. Just can't stop watching and learn!!!¡
Mom:
,,Why don't you play with the child from the neighbourhood?"
The neighbour child:
2:16
New video!!! Paul your channel is the best on youtube, you and GeographyHub should totally collaborate
That guy just started that new channel, why should he work with him? I like this channel more
+Anime Only Because theyre both very interested in geography and dedicate time to making videos about it, something that isnt common on youtube
+Anime Only uhhh he's been on youtube since 2012/13 just under alternateistoryhub
+Anime Only and keep in mind that he (cody) was working in the alternate history hub
+Anime Only To grow their respective audiences. Don't you want GeographyNow to fare better and better?
An American that doesn't completely slaughter french pronunciation... +1
Amazing video! I liked the fact that you really went deeper into the ethnic groups a bit more. Best video so far in my opinion(besides Bandiaterra)
yeah mate
He called them tribes. Bad idea.
Paul! One of your videos was shown in front my Importing/Exporting and Trading college class! Now I'm hooked to your videos! So far the only thing useful to come from that class haha.
+Nicole Schreck Whoa Really?! What school? Cool!
+Geography Now in Argentina the word "FASO" means "Pot", "Joint", "Marijuana Cigarette", ... So there you have another funny word from this country, lol
+Geography Now Dude Tipping my Hat for the way you handle Pronunciation :D
+Fedejr712 Don't forget the "Bobo" tribe that also means dummy in Argentina.
+Geography Now Mr. Paul Sir, I thank you very much for all your videos. Keep up the great work.
The quality of the videos has improven so much! Maybe when he's half-way trough the list, he could re-master some of the bigger Names for each letter (Argentina, Austria, Brazil, and so on...) I know is a lot to ask, and it would be a long video, but he could do 1 minute per nation or something like that AND IT WOULD BE REALLY AWESOME!
+SuperQuiMan Definately Agree! So much production improvement since the Afgahnistan video. Afgahnistan could definately do with a remake, or an update, because there is so much to know about that amazing country. Even though the production quality of that video may not have been as good, it set out the lay out and standard for all the following vids. So it was still a great start, but yes, totally do remakes and updates. Love this channel.
+SuperQuiMan He did Brazil like 2 weeks ago, that doesn't need a remaster, well not for a long while anyway
+Tree I do hope he waits with the remakes until after he is done with all countries.
Harry Jamieson It's hypotethical, plus, he would do it at the half of the country list, not right now
Damn you should see him now
Thomas Sankara LIVES! Viva la revolución
am I the only one really interested in the political systems of each country too?
+Aang Darkway You are not the only one, its interesting to see how other countries are ruled. But I think my own government has something to do with that. (I'm belgian.) Sooooo, yeah ;p
I am also very interested.
That's my favorite part of these videos.
SantomPh ^_^
+Aang Darkway nope I am interested too
Just found this channel. I love geography and was really searching for a good channel. I'm quite pleased.
Swedish cars, cars with pewdiepie's face slapped on it quality!
Yeah!😆
even swedish cars are not original
The architecture looks amazing! I'd like to visit someday.
Agree
Ouagadougou is almost as cool as Tegucigalpa.
Yes we're friendly too😊 come and see
@Knowle Austin thanks
So, unofficially, Burkina Faso’s flag could also represent its physical features, as follows:
🟥Red = The Sahel Region (North; red dirt).
🟩Green = The forest region (South).
⭐️Yellow Star = The gold that’s mined in the
country.
🇧🇫
Holy crap, the quality really improved from even the last video! It's really cool to see your development as a video maker as this series goes on :)
great work Mr. P B , Burkina Faso , ( Upper Volta ) video is another wonderful work,
great efforts indeed .
greetings from IRAQ
I thought my connection went out when the video blacked out near the end.
Can't wait for Ghana and Nigeria! Love, love your channel!
2:34 that's the old Herman flag! The last time france changed their flag was the beginning of the 1800's
Herman?
German*
The editing keeps getting better and better!
burkina faso is my country who else
me.. although i have never been there Lol
Me, my father's linage is Bissa.
@@lenaj5629 thoughts on thomas Sankara
Burkina Faso is the virus we have in West Africa
Me too and I'm proud
I AM ALWAYS SO AMAZED BY YOUR WORK.
I have been subscribed to this channel for quite some time (since the Belgium video, if I remember correctly.) and I can honestly with my hand on my heart say I've never been this interested in Geography. My own Geography teacher besides that is a living bedtime story for my long class naps, so I am incredibly thankful that everyone behind Geography Now! boozed my interest in this subject! Thank you. :D
OMG i cannot wait for South Africa 🇿🇦
*Thomas Sankara Lives On!*
In future go into detail about the ancient history like the first humans in the area and historical kingdoms. I wanna learn more about the Mossi kingdom. I'm just afraid he will skip the history of African or south America nations but talk about the Romans in Italy or the Celts in Britain and barely mention the Songhai of Mali or the Nubians of Egypt and Sudan.
+kwadwo baidoo He probably won't go into that much, he seems pretty committed to just doing the geography and general demographics.
***** for a sec I thought that was a real channel. It should be...
+kwadwo baidoo this geography now, not history now
patricio torre yeah but he should do a history now
kwadwo baidoo Your prediction was true, unfortunately.
These videos just keep getting better and better.
4:07 the most painful part about watching an old geography now video.
my ears
I am glad that you are back Barb.
I hope your dad is doing well and that you are feeling ok after everything,and I like fhe episode btw :)
in egyptian arabic, faso means "they farted"
abdelrahman s really?
Ashley Morton yuep
hue hue hue hue
also, in Argentinean slang, faso means joint xd
Dude Burkino Faso is a majority Muslim country so if your gonna insult your cousins In west Africa allah is not gonna be happy
Love to Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 from Belgium 🇧🇪
binge Wathcing geography now! :p
Akash Gupta same
Akash Gupta me to
Akash Gupta me too
You are an amazing youtuber and I just wanted to say thank you for doing this. I could easily tell that these video's take incredibly long to create and as a History/Geography fanatic just wanted to show you how much I love this.
6 children on average... Jesus
Yeh and that's why this country is piss poor .If you can't feed it don't make it
+H. Leo actually it is probably because of deep religious beliefs that shame contraceptives. It's a serious problem in third world country's that lead to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in some countrys. Of course there's also the problem with a culture among young people that doesn't care about other people if they know they're gonna die anyways. But that is a different problem.
+Ryan0556 Nigeria and Somalia has 7 children on average
+RedBaron223 it's a problem that exists in every poverty stricken society.
***** Somalia though
I have traveled a bit in West-Africa and found Burkina Faso to be one of the nicer countries.
Addition: since a lot of geographic names are pretty long, people often use just the first half; Ouaga, Bobo, etc.
Second addition: roads that are on the map, but do not lead to either Ouaga or Bobo, aren't there at all.
I'm addicted to this channel.
*I need help*
No help here.
Only more addicted people.
This channel has more subs than the population of Greenland multiplied by two!! Which is amazing! Keep up the good work Paul!
Could you do an update video about what happened in Burkina Faso please?
Great Video...My mother is from Burkina Faso and loved the information.
Barby, c-can I be your Ken?
Normally, I think the ending would be seen as unprofessional, but cause your videos are so awesome, it was just funny and made this video more memorable than the last.
Mossi are not a tribe. There are *6.2 million of them*. You don't call British a tribe, so don't call an entire nation a tribe.
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫🇧🇫🇧🇫
Does the flag represent the country's geography?:
red desert in the north, green forest in the south, and the big capital city in the middle
No the flag represent our identity Red for each burkinabe's blood pour for our freedom green for the forests and gold star for our treasure such as gold zinc ...
Sorry because I've just seen this video
Rip those who recently passed away in the attack this wknd in this interesting country. Thanks for this series as I came to learn more about the country after it is in the news. N
Thomas Sankara is the greatest human who ever walked in earth
my country Burkina Faso is an wonderful country with some amazing places. I invite you all over there when you are off to take some opportunity and have a great rest
What is the food like there?
Thomas Sankara is my hero!
This guy Barbs is the best ...love ur channel.
better for the camera to run out of space near the end rather than in the middle :D
Lol. Dat professionalism.
What I like about Geography Now, for better or worse, is that Barby manages to make every place he talks about sound nice. He makes the world seem like a hopeful place. Maybe it's delusional, but it's also very comforting.
okay the first picture of ouagadougou at 3:59 reminded me of Pyongyang!!
I just discovered this channel and I love it....thank you for making these videos! I started playing the map games on Seterra, which is making me curious about various countries.
10:54 I know this was posted 6 years ago, but, if the camera ran out of space and you knew that it had only a few space left (if you knew), then why did you film it on that one? Couldn't you just buy a new one?
Bro this was from 6 years ago he ain't that rich back then
@@someguy2398 I just asked
@@GeographyWeirdAlFan ok
New sd card
Burkina Faso is a great country. You did a great episode
No ones talking about how it looks like the vietcong flag
Sankara based it off that. Host completely missed that on the flag part
Long live the vietcong
Wow, Paul, you've started putting out videos pretty fast now. I didn't expect this for another week or so...keep up the good work!
Tu parles français très bien!
Meh un peux Mais Il droit pratiquer plus!
+TriniGamesVI ouais mais il ne parlait pas comme Québécois
+TriniGamesVI Etes-vous de la Bretagne?
Reed Noss Oui, j'habite à Brest.
+TriniGamesVI Parlez-vous Breton?
I love this guy
3:10 woah, he's psychic.
hei Barby, really dig your videos man. Keep it up. Just one slight mentione. As of today, 17.09 burkina faso had had a military coup going on supporting the previous president who was in exile. Keep up the good work.
black, white and red flag?
wouldn't this have caused some confusion with the second german reich?
Thanks you for doing this video about my country
Geography NOW! drinking game: take a shot every time he says "kind of", "kinda" or "like a".
I have alcohol poisoning now
Lol my mom is from north-east Burkina Faso and she liked this episode great job!
9:47 TOGO HAS NO EYES
I love this channel so much!
Hey Barby,
I watched every video of you from the first one till the one about Bulgaria in 2 days and I love them all.I am going to do a important english presentation in 5/6 weeks (I live in germany) and I think that your channel is a good topic for it.So here is my question:
Can I use screenshots from the videos for the presentation?There are only two teachers in front of me and it would make it much easier.
Looking forward to new videos of you (especially germany and turkey) and just stay as you are now.I already learned a lot :D
Prehistoric period
As for all of West Africa, Burkina Faso has experienced very early settlement, including hunter-gatherers in the northwestern part of the country (12,000 to 5,000 years before the Christian era), and of which tools (scrapers, chisels and tips) were discovered in 1973. Sedentarisation appeared between 3,600 and 2,600 before the Christian era with farmers, whose traces of construction have allowed to consider a relatively durable installation. The use of iron, ceramics and polished stone developed between 1500 and 1000 BC, as well as the emergence of spiritual concerns, as evidenced by the remains of burial discovered.
Remains attributed to the Dogons have been discovered in the North Central, North and North-West regions. But they left the area between the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century to settle in the cliff of Bandiagara. In addition, remains of walls are located in southwestern Burkina Faso (and Côte d'Ivoire), but their builders have not been able to be identified with certainty. The ruins of Loropéni, located near the borders of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, are now recognized World Heritage site.
Thomas Sankara did nothing wrong
Nice video. I am from Burkina Faso and your facts are on point.
That was a great ending
Dat feeling when theres a new Geography Now episode^^
"the red symbolises 'revolution'...uuhhh...the yellow star symbolises..uh......guiding light..."
marxism, paul. just say marxism.
Best ending yet!
Great video again. A country I knew very little about
When we spoke about the African countries and capitals in class, really nobody was able to pronounce Ouagadougou 😂
Btw. When thinking about it, I would say their old flag wasn't the smartest choice 😂
Boucle du Mouhoun (Dédougou)
Cascades (Banfora)
Centre (Ouagadougou)
Centre-Est (Tenkodogo)
Centre-Nord (Kaya)
Centre-Ouest (Koudougou)
Centre-Sud (Manga)
Est (Fada N’Gourma)
Hauts-Bassins (Bobo Dioulasso)
Nord (Ouahigouya)
Plateau-Central (Ziniaré)
Sahel (Dori)
Sud-Ouest (Gaoua)
Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)