It revived the colony of Upper Volta in 1947 and consolidated other territories as part of the French Union. After the Second World War France experienced a shortage of raw materials and turned to its colonies in Africa.
France dismantled the territory and shared it among French Sudan, the Ivory Coast, and Niger. The Colony was a major source of cotton much of which was exported to France, but by 1932 the colonists were facing armed resistance from the local communities and administering the colony was becoming too expensive. However, the colony proved too big to administer prompting the French to separate upper Senegal and the Niger, from the territory that is present-day Burkina Faso resulting in the creation of the colony of French Upper Volta on March 1, 1919. In 1904 the French integrated its territories in the Volta Basin, upper Senegal and Niger, and other territories in West Africa into a single colony with the capital in Bamako. The colonialists also made treaties of their own that included giving up some territories for others, and in 1896, Burkina Faso became a French Protectorate. They formed alliances and signed treaties with some local communities while fighting others.
In the early 1890s, German, French, and British colonists made several attempts to claim present-day Burkina Faso in what was known as the Scramble for Africa. The name Burkina Faso means "the home of upright men." Colonization of West Africa
The Republic of Upper Volta was a country that existed in West Africa from December 11, 1958, to August 4, 1984, when it was renamed to Burkina Faso by Thomas Sankara after seizing power through a coup d'état on August 4, 1983.
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