Roger Nikiéma

Roger Timbila Théodore Nikièma was born in 1935 in Konioudou, in the province of Bazèga. He joined the Upper Volta broadcasting service in the late fifties, where his voice made him known, trained in France, Israel and elsewhere, then headed his country's radio and television. He founded Burkina's first community radio station, launched the annual prize that rewards the country's journalists, presided over the national union of free radio stations from 1995 to 1999 and in 1990 sat on the commission that drafted the constitution of the fourth republic. He died on 15 December 2021 in Ouagadougou.

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• Short storiesDeux adorables rivalesRoger Nikiéma · 1971not translated into EnglishLiterature