Burkina Faso All works

All works 23

• NovelCrépuscule des temps anciensNazi Boni · 1962not translated into EnglishThe chronicle of a Bwa village before and during the colonial conquest, written by a deputy of Upper Volta.Literature
• NarrativeHistoire et coutumes royales des Mossi de OuagadougouYamba Tiendrébéogo · 1964not translated into EnglishThe history and rites of the Mossi court, told by one of its dignitaries.Literature
• TheatreSansoaKpièlè Pierre Dabiré · 1969not translated into EnglishA drama of 1969 about a farmers' son caught up in colonial conscription and what it costs those close to him.Literature
• Short storiesDeux adorables rivalesRoger Nikiéma · 1971not translated into EnglishTwo stories by a Voltaic radio man, published in Cameroon for lack of a publisher at home.Literature
• CinemaBlood of the PariahsLe Sang des pariasMamadou Djim Kola · 1973A love thwarted by caste, in a family that thinks itself modern.Cinema
• NovelLes Dieux délinquantsAugustin-Sondé Coulibaly · 1974not translated into EnglishA novel about a generation's revolt against the weight of custom.Literature
• PoetryÇa tire sous le SahelTitinga Frédéric Pacéré · 1976not translated into EnglishSatires in verse, set to the rhythm of the Mossi drum, written by a lawyer from Ouagadougou.Literature
• NovelLe Retour au villageKollin Noaga · 1978not translated into EnglishThe misadventures of an emigrant from Upper Volta who has set off to try his luck in Ivory Coast.Literature
• TaleContes de jadis, récits de naguèreÉtienne Sawadogo · 1982not translated into EnglishLegends, tales and stories from Upper Volta, published in Dakar in the early eighties.Literature
• Feature filmPaweogoSanou Kollo · 1983The first feature of an Upper Voltan filmmaker, on the temptation of exile in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire.Cinema
• PoetryOrphelin des collines ancestralesJacques-Prosper Bazié · 1984not translated into EnglishThe first book of a poet and journalist from Ouagadougou.Literature
• PoetryParturitionBernadette Dao · 1986not translated into EnglishThe verse of a Burkinabe woman author, published in a collective collection under the revolution.Literature
• NovelAdama ou la Force des chosesPierre-Claver Ilboudo · 1987not translated into EnglishThe tribulations of an ordinary man who has fallen into the small trades of the Burkinabè capital.Literature
• NovelL'Enfer au paradisAnsomwin Ignace Hien · 1988not translated into EnglishYoung people who left to seek a living in the city, and whom the street ends up taking in.Literature
• CinemaZan BokoGaston Kaboré · 1988A Mossi village devoured by the city, and a peasant who refuses to leave.Cinema
• CinemaYaabaIdrissa Ouédraogo · 1989The friendship between a child and an old woman held to be a witch, filmed in Mooré with the people of a village.Cinema
• NovelRougbêingaNorbert Zongo · 1990not translated into EnglishThe second novel of a Burkinabè journalist, an epic of the resistance of the Bwa people to colonial power.Literature
• NovelLe Héraut têtuPatrick G. Ilboudo · 1991not translated into EnglishThe journey of a militant for the unity of an imaginary continent, written by a journalist from Ouagadougou.Literature
• NovelLe Mal de peauMonique Ilboudo · 1992not translated into EnglishThe first novel published by a woman in Burkina Faso, the story of a mother and her mixed-race daughter.Literature
• Feature filmKeita! The Heritage of the GriotKeïta ! L'Héritage du griotDani Kouyaté · 1995The first feature of a Burkinabè filmmaker from a line of griots, between Western schooling and the word of the elders.Cinema
• CinemaSilmandéS. Pierre Yaméogo · 1998A family of Lebanese traders in Ouagadougou caught up in the turmoil of power.Cinema
• CinemaLe Truc de KonatéFanta Régina Nacro · 1998A village comedy about the condom, shot by a Burkinabè woman director.Cinema
• CinemaGarbaAdama Roamba · 1999Children who have run away from a Koranic school, left to themselves in a Burkinabè city.Cinema

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