Bobo Dioulasso

Bobo Dioulasso

      city, southwestern Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). Dating (according to tradition) from the 15th century, the city was engaged in continual conflict with Kong to the south, and in the 18th century it was occupied by the Kong prince Famara Wattara, who made it the capital of the surrounding region, Gwiriko. In the 19th century the Kong empire disbanded, Gwiriko was rent by revolts, and Bobo Dioulasso fell to French troops in 1897.

      The country's second largest city and its chief trade and industrial centre, Bobo Dioulasso has bicycle assembly works, cigarette factories, cotton gins, and a variety of food-processing plants. The sale of ivory, bronze, and iron handicrafts as well as traditionally crafted jewelry is economically significant. Fruits and vegetables are sold in the large marketplace. Major roads radiate from the city, and it is a stop on the rail line between Abidjan (capital of the Côte d'Ivoire) and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. Borgo International Airport is just to the west. Bobo Dioulasso is an Islāmic centre with a large clay mosque dramatically studded with wooden pikes. It has a college, the West African Centre for Economic and Social Studies, and it is the seat of government research institutes for geology and mines and for cotton and textiles. Pop. (1985) 228,668.

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