West African Elite Housing

All the manufactured items necessary to build this house had to be imported from abroad. What are the materials in this photo that Upper Volta does not manufacture? What is Upper Volta called today?

Answers:

• buildings materials: glass, steel doors, cement for the walls, lights

• the government of Upper Volta changed the name of the country to Burkina Faso in the 1980s.

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 February 1996.