On October 4 1968, Burkina Faso was the second of six west African nations that issued a French omnibus memorial set in the 1968-69 period to commemorate Gandhi, King, Luthuli and the Kennedys.  Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta) shared an Airmail Gandhi stamp with one of Chief Albert John Luthuli, the standard bearer of Gandhi's ideas of non-violent resistance in South Africa, on the same day when Niger issued a set commemorating Gandhi, King and the Kennedys.