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When Ouezzin died unexpectedly in 1958, Yameogo maneuvered himself into the governmental leadership and was named president by the assembly. Ouezzin's position was threatened in late 1957 when the MDV and some former PSEMA members bolted from the coalition, but in early 1958 Maurice Yameogo led some deputies from the MDV into the PDU, supporting the government. After the 1957 election, the PDU formed a coalition with the MDV, and Ouezzin Coulibaly gained control of the territorial assembly, whose powers had expanded because of reforms following the French Overseas Reform Act. The PDV-RDA entered an alliance with the PSEMA to form the PDU. A fourth party, the Mouvement Démocratique Voltaique (MDV), also had Mossi support in the north. The party split into the Mouvement Populaire de 1'Evolution Africaine (MPEA), based in the west, and the Parti Social de l'Education des Masses Africaines (PSEMA), based in the east and backed by the Mossi leader, the Moro Naba. In the same year, the Mossi formed the Union Voltaique, a traditionalist party favored by the French, who hoped to suppress the PDV.īy 1954, the French had relaxed their opposition to the PDV-RDA, and the Mossi party began to disintegrate because of personal differences among the leadership.

Pressures for independence were stimulated by the Parti Démocratique Voltaique (PDV), founded by Oeuzzin Coulibaly in 1948 as a section of the interterritorial Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA). After World War 11, the Mossi pressed for recognition of Upper Volta as a separate territory, and the French granted this status in 1947.

The French maintained the area as a colony from 1896 to 1932, when administration was divided among some of the surrounding colonies. The Mossi, however, accepted French rule for the advantages of protection against warring neighbors. The land now known as Upper Volta was traditionally dominated by the powerful Mossi tribe, who successfully resisted being conquered by Muslim invaders and preserved their animist beliefs although surrounded by Muslim influences. (Text as published in 1980 citation above) Political Parties: A Cross-National Survey Party politics in Upper Volta, 1950-1962 Path: ICPP > ICPP1980 > Listof Countries -> UpperVolta Kenneth Janda