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Train Station, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
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Train Station, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
Much of the picturesque public architecture of West Africa is a relic of the colonial period. In major cities across the continent, great railway stations, legislatures, presidential offices and other structures have been built in a "neo-Sudanese" style invented by the colonial powers. The main train station in Bobo-Dioulasso is one such structure.