A sampling of the literature on Burkina Faso

Abstract

The first edition of Daniel McFarland's Historical dictionary of Upper Volta (Metuchen, N.J. and London, Scarecrow Press, 1978. 217 pp.) was published in 1978. From that time until the early 1990s, McFarland updated many of the entries and collected new materials. Dut to family health considerations he felt unable to complete the second edition. I agreed to undertake that project in 1995 with complete access to his collected material. That volume was published in 1998: Daniel Miles McFarland and Lawrence A. Rupley Historical dictionary of Burkina Faso [fomer Upper Volta (Haute Volta)] 2nd ed. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 1998. Ixxvii, 279 pp. This article is an outgrowth of that work. Following some general background on the country, this article reviews a sampling of the published literature concerning Upper Volta/Burkina Faso. Where citations are not included in the text, they can be found in the bibliography.