In what year did Maurice Yaméogo became a civil servant?
1940
1946
1950
1956
Answer
Maurice Yaméogo became a civil servant in 1946, when he was appointed as a postal clerk in Ouagadougou, the capital of the Upper Volta colony. He would go on to hold a number of other government positions before being elected president of Upper Volta in 1960.
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