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That's all from the BBC Africa Live page this week. to keep-up-to-date, listen to theAfrica Today podcastand keep up-to-date with African stories on theBBC News website.
Today's African proverb was "Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden". It's an Akan proverb from Ghana sent by Oguntoye Stephen Babatunde, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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We leave you with this imagefrom our week in picturesof the street cleaners - or green brigade - of Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, at the the country's independence day celebrations last week.