What visa does a Grenada passport need for Burkina Faso?
🇬🇩 → 🇧🇫 E-visa — apply online
This is a real visa, just filed online. You wait for approval, you can be refused, and the fee is usually non-refundable.
Visa rules can change at any time. Confirm with your airline before each flight — the airline is liable if they board a passenger against regulations, so they update fastest. Data verified on 26/07/2026.
The other direction: Burkina Faso nationals travelling to Grenada — visa required in advance.
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BURKINA FASO · 12,3714°N 1,5197°W
◉ Ouagadougou
CapitalOuagadougou
Population~23,200,000
CurrencyXOF
ContinentAfrica
ISO codeBF / BFA
Passport rank#70
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Frequently asked questions
Until 1984 the country was called Upper Volta, a colonial name taken from the three branches of the Volta river. In 1984 it was renamed Burkina Faso, meaning land of upright people.
Burkina comes from Mooré, the largest ethnic group's language; Faso from Dioula, a widely used trading language; and the demonym Burkinabè takes its suffix from Fulfulde, another group's language. The country's name and its citizens' name were assembled from three languages of three different ethnic groups, deliberately.
Because the Tanzania article records a decision of the same kind: adopting Swahili, a trading language not belonging to the largest group, so no group was favoured. Burkina Faso did the same at the highest symbolic level, the country's own name. How a country names its citizens indicates where it intends to draw the who-belongs line.
Listing ethnicities in law to exclude, as in Myanmar; recording ethnicity on identity cards, as in Rwanda with catastrophic consequences; listing in order to recognise, as in Bolivia with 36 languages in the constitution; and creating a shared foundation no group owns, as in Tanzania and Burkina Faso.
It is heavily affected by Sahel instability with armed conflict across much of its territory and millions displaced. This is no place to consider a personal relocation plan at present. Burkina Faso has also withdrawn from ECOWAS alongside Mali and Niger.
Gold has become the largest export, overtaking cotton in recent years, though cotton remains important and supports very many farming households. There is also livestock and sesame.
Because the country depends on ports in Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Benin and Ghana, while the ECOWAS withdrawal complicates the legal framework of those very corridors. At the same time security conditions limit extraction in many areas. It is the clearest case that geography and politics multiply rather than add.
Ouagadougou hosts FESPACO, Africa's largest film festival, and Burkina Faso has a surprisingly strong cinema tradition relative to its economic size. The Loropéni ruins are a UNESCO site.
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