Dec 17, 2015
On Sunday, November 29, 3,309,988 burkinabés chose their new president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, of the MPP party (Mouvement du Peuple pour le Progrès – or People’s Progressive Movement). But it wasn’t until December 15 – two weeks later – that the Constitutional...
Nov 25, 2015
The three weeks of standstill the coup d’etat provoked have not kept the 2015-2016 academic year and our projects in Rimkieta from getting off to a good start! This year, in addition to the Maternelle, the literacy program for mothers, the scholarships, the...
Oct 8, 2015
After nine months in Spain and only a few hours after getting home, my adoptive country welcomed me with a coup d’état that paralyzed for a few weeks the exemplary transition process that Burkina was enjoying. The incident, a real and exemplary popular revolt that...
May 28, 2015
I have often read that Africa is the forgotten continent, but I go to bed every night convinced that it’s anything but. How else can you explain that a group of children no more than 4 years old, shoeless and barely clothed with “loincloths” play with fire, metal and...
Apr 13, 2015
This is my recount of my latest trip. It seems to me it merits the title “Burkina is saved!” Because among so many good things we saw, the most important is that Burkina Faso can serve as an example to the world of how an oppressed nation is capable of rebelling and...
