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Newly displaced people waiting by the side of the road after fleeing attacks in Barsalogho, in northcentral Burkina Faso. TOM PEYRE-COSTA/NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL

8 Oct 2020 2 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Burkina Faso: coming undone

Sam Mednick on Burkina Faso’s unfolding humanitarian crisis.

15 Apr 2019 6 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

The promise of a ‘New International Economic Order’

What has become of the ‘Third World’? Featuring Vijay Prashad and Thomas Sankara.

5 Jan 2017 15 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Sabtenga: modernization knocks on the gates of tradition

Chris Brazier's full interview with François Moné, the village's latest Chief.

1 Jan 2017 1 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Map of Sabtenga - and 30 years of change in Burkina Faso

How the village has grown - and some facts about how things have changed.

1 Jan 2017 7 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Journey's End

Chris Brazier returns to the village in Burkina Faso that he has visited every 10 years since helping to make...

1 Jan 2017 7 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Then & Now

A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming;...

1 Jan 2017 6 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

An Audience with the Chief

Former military pilot François Moné has taken on the traditional role of Chief. He explains how he is using this to pursue...

1 Jan 2017 5 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Autumn of the Patriarch

The latest instalment in the lives of Adama, his four co-wives and their 26 children.

1 Jan 2017 5 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

The Perils of Charity

When rich and poor worlds collide, money is inevitably a problem.

1 Jan 2017 7 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Great Expectations

Mariama’s sons are all trying to make their way in the wider world. But how do you explain to Africans that the rich world is...

1 Aug 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

The miracle of water

One of the most salutary lessons I have learned is to value water as the greatest of gifts, writes Chris Brazier...

29 Jul 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Season of the rains

Part three of Chris Brazier's blog series from Burkina Faso, making his fourth trip to the country since 1985...

27 Jul 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

View from the village: my return to Burkina Faso

Chris Brazier continues this blog series about his return to the country. This is part two.

25 Jul 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Night fever: remembering Burkina Faso and Tom Waits

Chris Brazier recalls the night he flew into the midst of a revolution and discovered he had made a serious...

1 Mar 2016 2 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Golden goal for child miners in Burkina Faso

Child miners are finding an unlikely escape from goldmines, through football, writes Rebecca Cooke.

4 Nov 2014 4 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Downfall of a murderer

The dethroning of Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré by a popular uprising has been long awaited by Chris Brazier...

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