Burkina Faso is an ethnically integrated secular state in sub-Sahara West Africa that is slightly larger than Colorado (map). Eighty percent of Burkina Faso’s 14 million inhabitants live in rural communities and most are subsistence farmers. While it is landlocked with limited natural resources and rainfall, this parliamentary republic has achieved economic growth, made advances in social welfare, and, as noted in a well-known travel guide, has “managed to fashion a beautiful and culturally sophisticated country out of the little resources it has.”

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