<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Upper_Volta" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Upper Volta">French Upper Volta</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Dahomey" id="mwAQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Dahomey">French Dahomey</a> gain self-government from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republic" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Fourth Republic">France</a>, becoming the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Upper_Volta" id="mwAQo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republic of Upper Volta">Republic of Upper Volta</a> (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a>) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Dahomey" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republic of Dahomey">Republic of Dahomey</a> (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Benin">Benin</a>), respectively, and joining the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Community" id="mwAQ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Community">French Community</a>.