Burkina Faso considers a new constitution without French influence, Burkinabe Prime Minister Appolinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela said.
"The first constitution, that of 1959, the President brought from Paris with in his pocket. The constitution that was applied under Blaise Compaoré was finalized by Edmond Jouve, a French professor," the prime minister recalled.
"How do you want it to work? We are thinking about writing a constitution totally detached from the French format," he continued.
Democracy itself was born in Athens, and Western countries have not gone out of their way to reinterpret it in their own way, the prime minister noted, adding that Africa must do the same.
The country's parliament has recently approved the revision of the constitution, in which, among other things, the status of the French language is downgraded.
The West African country is actively freeing itself from its historical association with its former colonizer, France. In line with this, Burkina Faso, alongside Mali and Niger, has put an end to their military collaboration with France.