Young men posed in front of posters of the country’s military leader.
Over dinner in restaurants, families watched television monitors showing footage of drone strikes.
The event was billed as a national cultural festival in the West African nation of Burkina Faso.
But it often resembled a mobilization campaign in the all-out war against the Islamist terrorists who have gradually occupied the country in recent years.
“The motherland or death,” Alaila Ilboudo, a spoken word artist, shouted onstage to the cheers of crowds at the festival, held in May in Bobo-Dioulasso, the country’s second largest city.
Persons:
” Alaila, Dioulasso
Locations:
West African, Burkina Faso, Bobo