Upper Volta
Upper Volta was a French colony in West Africa (now Burkina Faso) created by France primarily as a source of forced labor, particularly from the Mossi people, with cotton cultivation and labor recruitment practices that drained workers and disrupted local food production.
Claims that use this term
- France created Upper Volta colony mainly to exploit Mossi labor
- Forced labor drained Upper Volta of thousands of workers annually
- Forced cotton cultivation in Upper Volta collapsed food production and then itself
- French recruiters drained tens of thousands of Upper Volta workers for forced labor
- France created Upper Volta purely as a reservoir of forced labor
- Africans in Upper Volta were forced to grow cotton under armed guard