The conference on the theme of the 21st edition of the National Culture Week (SNC) opened on Monday April 29, 2024 in Bobo-Dioulasso. For three days, participants will reflect on the theme ‘Culture, historical memory and patriotic surge for a new Burkina’.
Three days after the launch of the festive activities and competitions of the Bobo 2024 National Culture Week (SNC), the Minister of National Education, Literacy and National Languages, Jacques Sosthène Dingara, and the one in charge of Culture, Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo opened the conference on the theme of this 21st SNC , ‘Culture, historical memory and patriotic surge for a new Burkina’.
For the organization of this conference, the president of the scientific committee, Professor Salaka Sanou, announced that a call for communications through word of mouth had been initiated.
‘This call for papers made it possible to record and we recorded a total of 63 communication proposals of which we retained 60,’ explained Professor Sanou.
Given time constraints,
Salaka Sanou announced that only around forty communications will be presented during three days of discussions. And it is teacher-researchers and doctoral students in literature and human sciences, as well as living human treasures, according to the president of the scientific committee who will speak out.
For the Minister in charge of National Education, Jacques Sosthène Dingara, representing his counterpart in Higher Education and Scientific Research, the analysis of this theme will allow specialists and the scientific world to contribute to identifying and magnifying the values ??endogenous sources likely to form the basis of the future of Burkina Faso.
Furthermore, the minister considers that the conference is also intended to be a textbook case, a training framework for young people and a framework for sharing experiences for the less young.
The Minister of State, Minister in charge of Culture, Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo expressed his gratitude to the scientific committee and all the actors who contribu
ted to the success of the event.
‘Our hope is that reflection can nourish the dynamic that has been initiated, namely bringing Burkina Faso back to its fundamentals, to its culture,’ said Minister Ouédraogo.
The conclusions of the reflections, according to the head of the culture department, should also promote the reconciliation of the Burkinabè with their own history.
Source: Burkina Information Agency