The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Burkina Faso
This page contains a list of the greatest Burkinabe Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Burkina Faso. This makes Burkina Faso the birth place of the 91st most number of Social Activists behind Uzbekistan, and Lebanon.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burkinabe Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Burkinabe Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yacouba Sawadogo (1946 - 2023)
With an HPI of 56.73, Yacouba Sawadogo is the most famous Burkinabe Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Yacouba Sawadogo (1946 – 3 December 2023) was a Burkinabé farmer and agronomist who successfully used a traditional farming technique called zaï to restore soils damaged by desertification and drought. Such techniques are known by the collective terms agroforestry and farmer-managed natural regeneration. A 2010 documentary feature film, The Man Who Stopped the Desert, first screened in the UK, portrays his life. Sawadogo was a native speaker of Mossi. In 2018, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. In 2020, he was awarded the Champions of the Earth award. Sawadogo died on 3 December 2023 at age 77.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Burkinabe social activists born between 1946 and 1946. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Burkinabe social activists include Yacouba Sawadogo. As of April 2024, 1 new Burkinabe social activists have been added to Pantheon including Yacouba Sawadogo.
