Burkina Faso has added the Haitian Revolution to its national curriculum
Burkina Faso has added the Haitian Revolution to its national curriculum. Read that again. A West African country is teaching its children about the revolution that made Europe tremble. In 1791, enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue rose up against the French Empire. They burned the plantations. They fought the Spanish, the British, and Napoleon’s army. In […] The post Burkina Faso has added the Haitian Revolution to its national curriculum first appeared on The Zambian Observer .