Yankasso

Yankasso
Village
Yankasso
Coordinates: 12.208307°N 3.200519°W / 12.208307; -3.200519
Country	Burkina Faso
Region	Boucle du Mouhoun
Province	Mouhoun
Department	Safané
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

Yankasso is a village in the Safané Department of Mouhoun province of Burkina Faso. It was the site of a serious defeat of the French colonial forces in December 1915.

Location

Yankasso is just north of Safané and 46 kilometres (29 mi) southeast of Dédougou.[1] As of the 1996 census, the population of Yankasso was 2,012.[2]

Battle of 23 December 1915

In November 1915 there was a revolt in the Black Volta bend against the French. The administrator Jules Brévié arrived at the end of the month to review the situation.[3] On 21 December 1915 a French column left Dédougou led by commandant Simonin.[4] Yankasso was then a large Marka village on the route leading south to Bouna.[5] Simonin suffered a serious check at Yankasso on 23 December.[4] Brévié was present at the battle.[3] The defeat was a political disaster for the colonial forces, since it showed they were not invincible.[5] Within a few days the revolt had spread to the whole of the Volta bend.[6] On 2 March 1916 the French returned and destroyed the village.[1] Most of Burkina Faso was at peace by the end of July 1916.[3]

Notes

1. Rupley, Bangali & Diamitani 2013, p. 232.
2. Liste des villages ... Boucle du Mouhoun.
3. Rupley, Bangali & Diamitani 2013, p. xxxvi.
4. Benoist 1987, p. 245.
5. Kamian 2001, p. 104–105.
6. Kamian 2001, p. 105.

Sources

• Benoist, Joseph-Roger de (1987). Église et pouvoir colonial au Soudan français: les relations entre les administrateurs et les missionnaires catholiques dans la Boucle du Niger, de 1885 à 1945. KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 978-2-86537-169-3. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
• Kamian, Bakari (2001). Des tranchées de Verdun à l'église Saint-Bernard: 80000 combattants maliens au secours de la France, 1914-18 et 1939-45. KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 978-2-84586-138-1. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
• "Liste des villages de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun". Projet Inforoute des Collectivités Territoriales du Burkina Faso. Archived from the original on 2008-01-25. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
• Rupley, Lawrence; Bangali, Lamissa; Diamitani, Boureima (2013). Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-6770-3. Retrieved 2015-10-27.