Anthropologists
from the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt present oral history materials to
the National Archives of Burkina Faso
A
contribution towards safeguarding an intangible cultural heritage
20.07.2012
In late
June 2012, anthropologists working at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in Germany handed over a voluminous
collection of oral history materials to the National Archives of Burkina Faso
based in the capital city of Ouagadougou. The National Archives, which were
established in 1970, are now home to these more than 6,000 pages of notes,
transcriptions, and translations relating to almost 800 interviews conducted
with village elders, earth priests, and village chiefs in the border regions of
Burkina Faso and Ghana.
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