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Ivorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe’O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa’s wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela

Ivorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe’O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa’s wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela.

Ivorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe'O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa's wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela.

Mandela's tailor on mission to boost African fashion

Pathe Ouedraogo after 50 years of his trade is now at the head of a pocket business empire that stretches across 10 countries and employs 60 people.

Ivorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe'O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa's wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela.

Princess Yennenga: Ancestor of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso When was princess Yennenga born? Historians dont seem to agree about the exact birth date of princess Yennenga. However, many believe she was born sometime between the 11th and the 15th centuries. She was King Naba Nedegas favorite daughter. He reigned over the Dagomba kingdom which was located in modern-day Ghana. What is so particular about princess Yennenga? According to oral tradition, the horse had been the princesss favorite ...

ADVERTISEMENT On April 13, 2021, several major news organisations reported the indictment of Blaise Compaoré, the exiled former president of Burkina Faso, over the 1987 murder of Thomas Sankara, the universally beloved leader of the country, killed in a palace coup in October of that year. Twelve other people face similar charges of complicity in the murder, but Compaoré is the biggest catch. Living in Abidjan, where he has family ties (married to the daughter of late Ivorian president Félix...

Punch Newspapers Sections Ewe iyeye, omo ti mo bi ko i to, ewe iyeye igba ni (the leaves of iyeye is two hundred, the children I have are not enough, the leaves of iyeye is two hundred).  My discussion is on the iyeye plant. It is known as hog plum in English. The Igbo call it Ijikara while it is known asTsardar masar in Hausa. While I was young, a big tree of iyeye was on a road path leading to our house and it dropped fruits while ripe so we had the opportunity to pick and eat as much as...

Earlier this month a court in Burkina Faso’s capital indicted former President Blaise Compaoré for his role in the murder of his comrade, Thomas Sankara, on 15 October 1987. The military court detailed Compaoré’s “complicity in the assassination”, the first time a court in the country has made such an accusation. Compaoré ruled the country until 2014, when he was forced to flee for neighbouring Cote D’Ivoire during a mass uprising. The decision to try the former leader has been ...