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{{Short description|National anthem of Burkina Faso}} {{Infobox anthem | title = Ditanyè | english_title = | alt_title = {{lang|fr|italic=no|L'Hymne de la victoire}} | en_alt_title = The Anthem of Victory | alt_title_2 = {{lang|fr|italic=no|Une Seule Nuit}} | en_alt_title_2 = One Single Night | image = | image_size = | caption = [[Coat of arms of Burkina Faso]] | prefix = National | country = {{BFA}} | author = [[Thomas Sankara]] | lyrics_date = | composer = Thomas Sankara(?) | music_date = | adopted = 2 August 1984 | until = | predecessor = [[Hymne National Voltaïque]] | sound = National anthem of Burkina Faso.oga | sound_title = }} "'''Ditanyè'''"<ref name=":1" /> (usually written "'''{{lang|fr|italic=no|Le Ditanyè}}'''"<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Thomas Sankara|url=https://www.presidencedufaso.bf/thomas-sankara/|access-date=2022-01-06|website=Présidence du Faso|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" />), also known as "'''{{lang|fr|italic=no|L'Hymne de la victoire}}'''"<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Thomas Sankara|url=https://www.presidencedufaso.bf/thomas-sankara/|access-date=2022-01-06|website=Présidence du Faso|language=fr-FR}}</ref> ("The Anthem of Victory", {{langx|mos|"Burkina Faso fãag-m-meng yɩɩlle"}};<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-13|title=index français - mooré - Webonary|url=https://www.webonary.org/moore/files/index-francais-moore.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-05|website=www.webonary.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225110848/https://www.webonary.org/moore/files/index-francais-moore.pdf |archive-date=2021-02-25 }}</ref><ref name="Ma Fierté">{{Cite web|last=Burkina Faso Ma Fierté|url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=672342609763939|title=L'hymne national traduit en mooré.|date=2018-06-09|access-date=2022-01-05|website=Facebook}}</ref>) or "'''{{lang|fr|italic=no|Une Seule Nuit}}'''" ("One Single Night"<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Khumalo|first=Sihle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgdbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT200|title=Almost Sleeping my way to Timbuktu|date=2013-09-01|publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa|isbn=978-1-4152-0566-2|pages=200|language=en}}</ref>), is the [[national anthem]] of [[Burkina Faso]]. Former [[List of heads of state of Burkina Faso|president]] [[Thomas Sankara]], also a jazz guitarist, wrote the lyrics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Khumalo|first=Sihle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgdbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT200|title=Almost Sleeping my way to Timbuktu|date=2013-09-01|publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa|isbn=978-1-4152-0566-2|pages=200|language=en}}</ref> The composer of the melody is unknown, but it has also been attributed to Sankara.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=2012|title=Complete National Anthems of the World: 2013 Edition|url=https://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art76/4800276-83a3be-636943100110.pdf|url-status=live|website=www.eclassical.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915021153/http://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art76/4800276-83a3be-636943100110.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-15 }}</ref> It was adopted during his presidency in a decree issued on 2 August 1984, effective midnight on 4 August 1984, the first anniversary of Sankara's accession to the presidency. The decree also renamed the country from [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] to its current name. The anthem replaced the "[[Hymne National Voltaïque]]", the national anthem of Upper Volta.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2021-08-04|title=Le 4 août 1984, Thomas Sankara rebaptisait la Haute-Volta en Burkina Faso|url=https://www.burkina24.com/2021/08/04/le-4-aout-1984-thomas-sankara-rebaptisait-la-haute-volta-en-burkina-faso/|access-date=2022-01-06|website=L'Actualité du Burkina Faso 24h/24|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Thomas Sankara|url=https://www.presidencedufaso.bf/thomas-sankara/|access-date=2022-01-06|website=Présidence du Faso|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Sawadogo|first=Alfred Yambangba|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HxF1AAAAMAAJ|title=Le Président Thomas Sankara: chef de la Révolution Burkinabé : 1983-1987 : portrait|date=2001|publisher=L'Harmattan|isbn=978-2-7475-0588-8|pages=277|language=fr}}</ref>
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