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L’Afrique Occidentale
West Africa
E¢onomi¢$ On July 14, 2008, Burkina be¢ame the 17th
¢ountry to enter into a ¢ompa¢t with the U$A via the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Burkina Fa$o will re¢eive $481 million over the next 5 year$ in order to make $trategi¢ inve$tment$ in it$ own development in the area$ of land $e¢urity, agri¢ulture, irrigation, road$ & primary edu¢ation
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Peace
Corps
Les stagiares à Ouagdougou
Peace Corps Burkina Faso staff at a retreat in Kaya
Burkina
Corps de la Paix
Team building retreat à Kaya
King
of
the
Mossi
Empire
The
Mossi
Empire
le chapeau du chef
du grand marché à Ouagadougou
Language of
the
Mossi
le marché
le couscous
le Moré1 yimbere2 yibu3 târbo4 nassé5 nous6 a yobé7 a yupé8 a nû9 a way10 piga
Association Omigbéfité
This association is a garden project to raise yams, tomatoes, eggplant, corn, peppers, melons & cabbage. The produce is sold in the local market
Biotechnology
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High hopes & high stakes
Agriculture Biotech gains few foothold in Africa The genetically engineered crops that now dominate Iowa
agriculture have found little acceptance in Africa. Most governments have lacked the capacity to evaluate & regulate the crops, but some countries are moving forward w/testing of the technology. Of the nearly 50 countries on the African continent only a handful permit the commercialization of biotech crops or are moving in that direction. Egypt , Burkina Faso & South Africa have permitted commercialization of biotech crops. Burkina Faso allows commercial production of insect-resistant cotton. (Monsanto, Dupont, Pioneer)
Biotech gains few footholds in
AfricaEgypt, Burkina Faso &South Africa have permittedcommercialization of biotechcrops
Burkina FasoBiotech status:
Allows commercial production of insect resistant cotton
Le Moringa Reseau de Ténado
The project provides the
community with
affordable & nutritious
food & a source of
revenue for farmers
Le Moringa Reseau
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou
les
FEMMES
La musique
Quand on parle de musique burkinabé, on parle de deux sortes de musique – la musique traditionnelle et la musique moderne pop. Il y a une grande différence entre les deux.
La musique traditionnelle La musique traditionnelle est la musique de la
brousse, des villages ruraux. Cette musique traditionnelle accompagne toutes les activités de la vie quotidienne ainsi que les événements mémorables de la vie sociale burkinabé. À toutes ces festivités, les griots, des poètes musiciens, racontent des histoires et jouent de la musique. Les instruments de musique sont souvent faits à la main par les griots
la musique traditionnelle
La musique moderne La musique pop burkinabé est
devenue très populaire au-dehors de Burkina, surtout en Europe. La première fois que vous l’entendez, vous pensez que c’est un mélange de rythmes latins et afro-américains des États-Unis comme le rock et le jazz
Georges Ouédraogo
Georges Ouédraogo est malheureusement décédé en 2.012
le garçon burkinabé
Match de la coupe des Nations
au Burkina Faso
800 Touaregs du Niger, du Mali, d’Algérie et du Burkina Faso sont arrivés à Tripoli pour grossir les rangs des quelque 10 000 combattants qui défendent le colonel.
Pas d’idéologie derrière ces ralliements. Leur intérêt est exclusivement pécuniaire
Les mercenaires africains de Kadhafi
le Parisien le 14 mars 2.011
Ils sont prêts à épouser toutes les causes. On n’a pas le choix, on a des familles à charge. Avec d’autres anciens militaires nous sommes décidés à partir. Nous serons très bien payés, et même mieux que les soldats de l’armée régulière. Les salaires et les équipements des mercenaires sont nettement supérieurs. De quoi s’offrir la loyauté indéfectible de ces combattants
Burkina Faso Army Mutiny
(housing allowances & back wages)
le 14 au 18 avril 2.011
Kaya, Pô, Ouagadougou, Tenkodogo
Roy has divided the Colorado-sized country of Burkina Faso into 8 major ethnic groups: Mossi,
Kurumba, Gurunsi, Bwa, Marka Dafing, Bobo, Bolo & Tusya & also into subgroups that are a
part of or contribute to the 8 major groups. For each group, professor Roy includes information
about geography, environment, history, social structure, religion, myths & artistic disciplines,
especially mask making
Mask making is an evolving tradition. When the owner of a mask dies, the mask may be passed on to the son, or it may be retired to the lineage spirit house, where it slowly decays. Years later, a diviner may prescribe a new mask in the same form & the old mask is taken to the local smith, who forges a replacement. Explanations about masks are recounted through tribal oral history & myth
Some highly naturalistic brass heads are so classical in style that they rival art produced by the ancient Greeks
At a great age he lay on his deathbed & asked his family to remember him after death with a small mask, identical in every detail to the great plank masks (the traditional mask of the tribe). The mask was carved & carried to his room, but when his family entered, his body had disappeared, leaving behind only the tiny knife & sandals. The knife is still used for killing chickens & for sacrifice. This mask called luruya represents this dwarf elder
La femme africaine
le 7 février 2.001
le 26 juillet 2.006
Monique Ilboudo est née
à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Titulaire d’un
doctorat en droit, ella a
enseigné jusqu’en 2001, le droit privé à l’Université de Ouagadougou
Monique Ilboudo a tenu diverses rubriques dans les journaux étant la plus connue «Féminin Pluriel» traité de la situation des femmes au Burkina Faso. Elle est l’auteure de nombreux ouvrages dans un livre qui dénonce l’exocisme. Une histoire d’œufs. Le mal de peau, son premier roman, a reçu le Grand Prix de meilleur roman en 1992. Monique Ilboudo est actuellement ministre de la protection des Droits humains du Burkina Faso
le premier octobre 2.007)
de Pierre-Claver Ilboudo
Pure Shea Butter=Pur beurre de Karité
L’Occitane en ProvenceHelp a woman gain economic independence
as all L’OCCITANE shea butter is purchased from
women’s cooperatives in Burkina Faso, West Africa at a fair price about
market rate
Lambs for School Project
$2,400.00 enabled300 girls to attendschool for the 13years
Funded by Friends of Burkina Faso
les filles à Ouagadougou
le Lycée Moderne de l’Amitié
Library & Literacy for Niankorodougou project director, Zongo Passo
LiteracyStudies show thatliteracy is correlatedwith improvedeconomic outcomes &a higher quality of life,as measured byimproved health &nutritional intake
One of the biggest problems forstudents is readingmaterial. Literacy& a lack of accessto reading materialsis a grave issue inBurkina
l’education
le lycée municipal de Ouagadougou
École Saint-Camille sur Avenue Babanguida à Ouagadougou
Engage. Expand. Enlighten.
Rachel Sawadogo
Health & Education According to a U.S. government’s own
assessment, Burkina could save more that $20 million in health & education expenditures by 2015, avert 4,962 maternal deaths & 240,753 child deaths simply by meeting the current demand that couples have expressed for information & services allowing them to decide the # & spacing of their children. Although Burkina has worked hard to make family planning services available to the population, much remains to be done
NEEED Moustiquaire Project
$4,274.00 provided treatedmosquito nets to students of «leLycée Moderne de l’Amitié»while also encouraging the children toeducate their families about malariaprevention
Outreach Program
les jeunes filles
le village de Tilli
HEALTH
This nurse works for the British non-profit
group «Save the Children»
Mariama is a typical victim. Malnutrition turned her hair into red straw. Her eyes lost color & her flesh shriveled away. She reached a government nutrition center where the nurse could only smear food on her face
The Sahel, Arabic for borderlands, lies just south of the Sahara. The dunes advance steadily across once fertile land, advance where goats overgraze, farmers over till & desperate people cut down scarce trees for fuel
350,000
people
HIV
positive
Public Health & SanitationPoor sanitary conditions continue to contributeto elevated levels of diarrheal diseases. In ruralareas, just 6% of people have adequatesanitation & only 42% in urban areas. Manypeople lack even pit latrines & small childrenroutinely go wherever it is convenient. Diarrhea is responsible for 19% of deaths in children under 5 & 9% for people of all ages. The problems are complex & interrelated – requiring changes in habits & beliefs & attitudes & enough $ amid so many other priorities data from 2007
Clean water & opportunities in Koukouldi
Population The population of Burkina has grown to 15 million & is
growing at nearly 3 % per year. It will double again in 26 years if women continue to have an average of 6 children in their lifetimes as now. Ouagadougou & the provincial cities have grown enormously, adding neighborhoods & roads, sprawling over the landscape. Traffic jams occur regularly as bicycles, motorbikes, cars & trucks compete with pedestrians & donkey carts on the streets. Outside towns & villages are stacked massive piles of firewood, chopped in the bush, waiting to be burned in ever more cook fires to feed the nation
What
did
you
say,
Burkina
Faso?
Newsweek lists the top 100 countries. The USA is #11. And #100? Burkina Faso
Summer 2010
Muslims around the worldsub-Saharan Africa
A visit & a messagefrom 1990
Centre de Santé et Promotion Sociale
Friends of Burkina Faso would like topurchase a pump & establish agarden / nutrition program for thecommunity health center serving about 5,000 people in Bissighin & surroundingvillages
A look ahead
Baobab tree has many uses
Boala, Burkina Faso
The last 60 miles of the road to Boala is a rutted dirt track, impassable during the June-September rainy season. The sun-hardened, reddish brown soil of the Mossi Plateau stretches out to a flat horizon. Firewood gatherers & grazing livestock have virtually deforested this sub-Saharan countryside
In this stark scene, an old baobab tree stands out like a giant on the landscape, its dar, pendulous fruit hanging from nearly bare branches. The people of this country, the Burkinabe, have founds some 30 uses for the baobab, including forage for cattle & goats, string & medicine produced from the bark & food from the fruit. The leaves are ground into a viscous sauce to be poured over the national dish call tô a porridge made of millet & sorghum
Boala
In a country so close to the equator that the seasonal variation in the length of a day is 20 minutes, where midday temperatures average 100°, all trees are valued simply for the shade
The deep black shade of a spreading mango tree in a family’s courtyard is a great luxury. An old Neere or Kaya tree is the scene of village meetings & a resting place for old people & children. One who looks higher into the branches is likely to see baboons & vultures
Until August 4, 1984, Burkina Faso was known as Upper Volta. The French named this landlocked African colony for the 3 branches of the Volta River that flow out of its heights, through neighbors to the south & into the Gulf of Guinea. The Voltaics gained their independence in 1960
In Equatorial Heat
Burkina Faso
The national name change marked the 1st anniversary of the coup d’état that brought Capt. Thomas Sankara’s military government to power. Upper Volta represented the colonial past which Sankara wanted to eradicate. Burkina Faso, roughly translated means “land of uncorrupted men”
Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world & the people face immense challenges: how to increase agricultural yields, provide pure water & basic health care, fight desertification & build roads where none exist. In spite of a massive influx of foreign aid, the Burkinabe find it difficult to transform expertise & costly programs into substantive change
Too often, newly built hospitals remain unopened & unused for lack of personnel & medicine. The rural population (90% of the 7+ million total) work their fields with a daba the traditional handmade farming implement
Captain Thomas Sankara
Thomas IsidoreNoël Sankara
December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987Burkinabé military captain
Marxist revolutionaryPan-African theorist
President of Burkina Faso 1983 -1987
The
upr
ight
man
Burkina FasoNot unlike countries elsewhere in the Third World,
Burkina Faso finds it difficult to change the realities of poverty & environment
Boala, population 400, is 120 miles from the capital of Ouagadougou. Only the 60 miles around the capital are paved. Visitors who make the arduous journey believe at first that the road is deserted. After a while people realize that one is never far from a cluster of mud huts with thatched roofs
On both sides of the road, the terrain is crisscrossed with narrow footpaths. Groups of women with babies on their backs & heavy clay posts of water on their heads return from distant wells. If a bicycle or motorbike passes, it is usually ridden by a man & generally a flapping chicken or bleating goat is attached behind. Young boys commonly tend the herds, while girls transport firewood, water or baskets of grain on their heads. Only an old man or a chief is ever seen on horseback
Stubborn Realities
Boala
The rare foreign visitors to Boala are greeted by a crowd. Villagers bring buckets of water so that travelers can wash the dust of the journey from their faces & hands. From the only refrigerator in Boala are brought extremely cold bottles of cola, orange soda or soda water
The villagers of Boala are especially proud of their clinic. Sparsely furnished, it has a small dispensary where a young girl with an elementary knowledge of first aid treats patients with complaints ranging from infected cuts to serious illnesses. But vaccines are scarce & rarely available to people in isolated villages like Boala
The Boala clinic’s bare delivery room is recognizable only by its delivery table. A midwife is available but she lacks the knowledge & resources to deal with complications
Stubborn Realities
Boala, Burkina FasoThe clinic has a simple water filter that is merely one
clay pot atop another. The top pot, partly filled with stones, has small holes in the bottom. When well water is poured into the top container, it passes through the stones which filter out some impurities. The system is primitive, but it indicates the villagers’ awareness of the connection between pure water & health, especially for people who are ill or weak
At times of rejoicing or in honor of special visitors, some 40 women & children gather under a large tree & form a circle. For an hour of high spirited celebration, they dance to the rhythm of clapping hands, stomping feet & singing. One woman after another enters the circle, each one trying to out-dance the other as the crowd voices its appreciation with loud cheers & laughter
The 2 oldest women in the village are the acknowledged champions
Filtered through Stones
Ségolène Royal avec Blaise Compaoré, président du Burkina Faso, le 25 novembre 2.011 à Ouagadougou
