The coat of arms of Burkina Faso contains a shield based on the national flag. Above the shield the name of the country is show, while below it is the national motto, Unité, Progrès, Justice, French for Unity, Progress, Justice. The supporters are two white stallions. Coat fo Arms of Burkina Faso This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ...
This coat of arms is similar to the old Upper Volta coat of arm with the Burkina Faso flag replacing the Upper Volta flag in the middle. At earlier time of the Burkinabé revolution another coat of arms showing a Daba (a traditional African ploughing instrument) and a Kalashnikov AK-47 with the motto La Patrie ou la Mort (Fatherland or death) was in use. Map showing the Volta river in Upper Volta Upper Volta (French: ) was the name of the African country now called Burkina Faso. ...
The motto of Upper-Volta was Unité, Travail, Justice (Unity, Labour, Justice).
Blaise Campoare, the President of BurkinaFaso, might have decided to modify the country emblem towards a less belliquous and Afro-marxist image (as well as he has progressively drifted from the strong Afro-marxist orientation given by his ex-brother-in-arms T. Sankara, who had made the 1984 coup).
What is more stranger is that the new coat of arms re-uses some elements of the Upper-Voltacoat of arms (the stallions, the crossed lances, the sorghum plants) shown in Smith [smi75b] and also the book which was present in the former arms but not in the Upper-Voltaarms.
The lances symbolize the determination of the sons of BurkinaFaso to protect their country; their crossed design means vigilancy and bravery of this nation.
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