{"id":343739,"date":"2025-01-16T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=343739"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:27:29","slug":"burkina-faso-wigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/burkina-faso-wigs\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso bans colonial-style wigs in courts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 of Burkina Faso has banned the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges. This decision marks a significant step towards breaking away from colonial traditions and embracing practices that reflect the country&#8217;s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Announcing the decision, President Traore emphasised the importance of breaking away from colonial traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to President Traor\u00e9, the ban is intended to foster national identity and assert the country&#8217;s sovereignty. Colonial wigs have long been seen as symbols of foreign influence in African legal systems. By discarding these relics, Burkina Faso joins other nations in embracing indigenous traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision has sparked discussions across the continent about the balance between modern governance and preserving cultural authenticity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/\">More stories here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 of Burkina Faso has banned the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges. This decision marks a significant step towards breaking away from colonial traditions and embracing practices that reflect the country&#8217;s cultural heritage. Announcing the decision, President Traore emphasised the importance of breaking away from colonial traditions. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":343740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,25,2773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","category-trending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-15-at-08.16.51.jpeg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343741,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343739\/revisions\/343741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}