Bobo-Dioulasso: On the sidelines of the 21st edition of the National Culture Week (SNC), the N’Lanou Gnoumou foundation organized the first edition of the Bwamu night, on Friday May 3, 2024 in Bobo- Dioulasso. An evening steeped in tradition and brotherhood between Bwaba and Peulh communities.
Joking relationships were there at this 21st edition of National Culture Week (SNC).
Indeed, outside the communities’ village, the N’Lanou Gnoumou foundation organized an evening called “Bwamu night” which was dedicated to the Peulh and Bwa communities.
This first edition, which saw the participation of several canton chiefs, notably that of Dédougou, Gaoua, Bobo-Dioulasso, and the Emir of Liptako-Gourma, aims to celebrate and promote the cultural values of Burkina Faso.
Placed under the theme ‘strengthening peace and social cohesion around the joking relationship between Bwaba and Peulhs’, it also aims to magnify Bwa culture while promoting social cohesion, indicated the president from the N’Lanou Gnoumou foundatio
n, Dr Sanhan Traoré.
The Night of Bwamu thus offered the opportunity to the Bwaba and the Peulh to highlight their ‘rich’ cultural heritage.
Traditional dances, songs, and demonstrations enchanted the participants, highlighting the diversity and beauty of Bwa culture.
The president of the N’Lanou Gnoumou foundation also expressed the contribution of such an activity to social cohesion in Burkina Faso.
‘We only have Burkina Faso as our country and we are condemned to live together,’ she recalled, emphasizing the importance of unity in diversity.
For her, the Burkinabè must draw, from their cultural values, to bring out the best of these values in order to move forward.
As for the Minister of State, Minister of Communication, Culture, Arts and Tourism, Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo, he underlined the importance of this evening in the current context marked by terrorism.
‘It is on these values that we can rely effectively to repair the social fabric weakened by terrorism,’ he declared.
These initiativ
es, continued Minister Ouédraogo, are likely ‘to truly remind us that we are ‘one’ and that it is in our interest to rely on these ancestral values in order to counter terrorism and establish lasting peace, fraternity and cohesion between communities.
Source: Burkina Information Agency