Burkinabé women have traded shea kernels and butter in periodic local markets, on a regional scale with the densely-populated West African littoral, for centuries. This paper traces origins of French colonial efforts to develop as commodity empire from 1890s independence 1960. Colonial incorporate Upper Volta, backwater, into world economy was drawn out, heterogenous, messy. The state assumed e...

Vitellaria paraodoxa (shea tree) is the source of shea seed from which well-known butter derived. The methanol extract was evaluated for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities using diclofenac sodium ascorbic acid as standard respectively in vitro methods. activity determined by inhibition protein denaturation bovine serum albumin (BSA) erythrocyte membrane stabilization human red blo...