Prosper Vokouma (born 4 August 1955[1]) is a Burkinabé diplomat and politician who served in the government of Burkina Faso as minister of foreign affairs from 1989 to 1991.
He became Burkina Faso's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Trade Organization in 2008.
Vokouma entered the civil service in April 1982, when he was appointed as a department head at the Directorate of Bilateral Cooperation, part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[3] He was dismissed from the government on 26 July 1991, when Issa Dominique Konaté was appointed to replace him as foreign minister.
[1] He left the latter position when he was assigned to a diplomatic posting in Switzerland: on 12 March 2008, he was accredited as Burkina Faso's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Trade Organization, and he additionally presented his credentials as Ambassador to Switzerland to the President of the Swiss Confederation, Pascal Couchepin, on 1 July 2008.