Modified On December 8, 2004
We got a hit from someone in Burkina Faso the other day. Once in a while, we see some countries represented in our stats that we aren’t immediately familiar with, so we hop on over to one of our favorite websites, The Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook and get the skinny on this country or that.
We knew it was on the African continent…somewhere in the west. Turns out it’s landlocked, surrounded by Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Mali and Niger. And it’s not doing so good these days. (Which makes us wonder why someone in Burkina Faso would be at all interested in standup comedy. Hmmm… Maybe when your country has a wickedly high poverty rate and is harboring rebels from the conflicts in Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia, you need all the yocks you can get. Perhaps it was all just a misunderstanding– we often find ourselves on the “wrong” website.)
We were flattered, however, that a country with only 65,400 telephones, 48,000 internet users and a 26.6 per cent literacy rate would be reading our humble publication. Hello to our Burkinabe (that is how one refers to a resident of Burkina Faso) fan or fans!