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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collectio…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. C121-13-WH65.
Maurice Yameogo
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collectio…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. C121-13-WH65.

Maurice Yameogo

1921 - 1993
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Maurice Yaméogo (Dec. 31, 1921, Koudougou - Sept. 15, 1993, Ouagadougou) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso; Jan. 3, 1966, he left the presidency because of a nation-wide syndicalist strike
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Upper Volta