Coat o airms o Burkina Faso

The coat o airms o Burkina Faso contains a shield based on the naitional banner. Abuin the shield the name o the kintra is shawn, while belaw it is the naitional motto, Unité, Progrès, Justice (French for "Unity, Progress, Juistice").  The supporters are twa white stallions. This coat o airms is seemilar tae the auld Upper Volta coat o airms (see belaw), wi the Burkina Faso banner replacin the Upper Volta banner in the middle.

Historic coat o airms (1984-1987)
Thomas Sankara's 1983-1987 Burkinabé revolution implementit a coat o airms featurin a crossed mattock an AK-47 (an allusion tae the Hammer an Sickle), wi the motto La Patrie ou la Mort, nous vaincrons (Faitherland or daith, we will win).


Coat of arms of Upper Volta
This somewhat resembles the current emblem, except that the enclosin shield haes a blue backgrund, the horse are white, the inescutcheon is based on the banner o Upper Volta wi the superimposed letters "RHV" (for République de Haute-Volta), an the motto wis Unité, Travail, Juistice ("Unity, Labour, Justice").Guide to the Flags of the World by Mauro Talocci, revised and updated by Whitney Smith (ISBN 0-688-01141-1), p. 125.

Category:Naitional seembols o Burkina Faso
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