COMMENT | Why not? A country must stand for something if it doesn’t want to become a joke. Burkina Faso, a country in sub-Saharan Africa, actually means “Land of Upright Men”. What an amazing name for a country!

And how did they figure out that it is more important for people to be upright than the flag? Yes, I know they are poor and drought-stricken.

Twenty-five million people live in a land area that is slightly less than ours, mainly through subsistence farming and livestock raising. But they believe it is better to be aspiring and upright than be rich and corrupt to the core!

Perhaps it has something to do with their national anthem: “Homeland or Death, We Will Overcome”. Burkinabes know that people overcome difficulties and setbacks through effort and struggle, not through cheating, forgery or lies or switching sides. I like such people.

Now here comes the fact that hurts...