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  • This is an old term for Burkina Faso.

    Sometimes I think there is something wrong with me, that I could make better use of my brain cells.

    November 13, 2007

  • There's something compelling about Upper Volta. As a child I had an Upper Volta stamp in my collection, a pictorial featuring a crazed staring skull, some kind of fetish I presume. It had a magnetic terror about it, and so, since then, for me, has Upper Volta.

    November 13, 2007

  • The name of the capital, Ouagadougou, is also compelling.

    Perhaps, seanahan, your brain cells are making use of you.

    November 13, 2007

  • The name of the capital, Ouagadougou, is also compelling.

    Despite the chronic shortage of consonants, though this has been alleviated somewhat since the Onion-sponsored letter exchange with Bosnia and Croatia.

    November 13, 2007