The first widespread cases of members of the judiciary sporting the wig didn’t appear until around 1685, as the rest of society was starting to turn away from the trend. By the 1840s ...

By Femi Falana Between 1983 and 1987, the radical military regime of Captain Thomas Sankara changed the colonial name of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso. While the courts bequeathed by the former ...

Ibrahim Traoré, the president of Burkina Faso, has banned the use of British and French colonial-era judicial wigs, marking a significant step in the nation’s decolonization efforts.

Ibrahim Traoré, the leader of Burkina Faso, has banned judges from donning wigs that are symbolic of colonial French and British outfits. Colonial-era wigs have long been associated with foreign ...

Together with his deputy, Justice (Rtd) Kalpana Rawal, they had dropped the colonial wigs and robes, which had featured in judicial ceremonies since independence. With that single act, they ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...