Myron Echenberg
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Associate Professor of History, McGill University, Montreal. Author of Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 and “Black Death, White Medicine”: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Sénégal, 1914-1945 and others.
Primary Contributions (3)
History of Burkina Faso, survey of the important events and people in the history of Burkina Faso. A landlocked country in western Africa, Burkina Faso gained independence from France in 1960 and was originally known as Upper Volta before adopting its current name in 1984. The capital, Ouagadougou,…
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