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Burkina Faso

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Nazi Boni

Died in 1969

Nazi Boni was born in Bwa country, in the west of Upper Volta, in 1909. Trained at the William Ponty teachers' training college, he worked as a schoolteacher, then entered politics and sat in the French National Assembly as deputy for his territory from 1948 to 1959. A advocate of a West African federation against the fragmentation of the territories, he founded several parties, presided over the territorial assembly for a few months, then was pushed out of power after independence. He died in 1969.

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