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Burkina Faso (Literature (Writers (Frédéric Pacéré Titinga (He is a poet,…

- - - - He is a poet, novelist and lawyer. Militant in the defense of Human Rights. He won the Grand Prix Literario of the Black Africa in 1982, because of his poem “Poème pour l'Angola” (Poem for Angola).
    - - She is a film director and she made the movies Notre Étrangère (foreigner) and friends forever.
    - - He studied in Paris to get his degree. He found the associative movement of humanitarian character and the anti-racist movement MOVRAP.
    - - He was a investigative journalist and he invented the newspaper L'Indépendant in 1993. He was murdered when he start to investigate the assassination of the brother of the president.
- - - - It is handmade in Guinea, from a special cone-shaped vine that grows along the Niger River and in the forested region of Guinea. It is provided with 3 holes and an embouchure. It is played like a transverse flute
    - - It is composed of a pumpkin as a sounding board, covered by a skin like a resonance lid. The mast traps the box and extends, where the strings are tightened as an arc. It is touched with the thumbs and the index fingers of both hands.
    - - It consists basically of a set of tongues of tempered metal or bamboo of variable length installed in a board, box or pumpkin resonator, its free ends vibrate by the thumbs and fingers.
    - - A box, almost always of rectangular shape covered with skin makes a resonance box, and a cylindrical mast makes a mast. Usually have 2, 3, or 4 strings.
- - - - In Burkina Faso every 5 August is Independence Day to commemorate the country’s full independence from the French Empire on that day in 1960.
    - - In Burkina Faso every 11 december is the Republic Day to commemorates the establishment of the Republic of Upper Volta in 1958