The initiator of Archives Burkina, Martial Rigobert Tiendrebeogo said on Tuesday in Ouagadougou, during the launch of the activities of the Association for the Promotion of Archives of Burkina (APAB), that a treasure has no value if hidden.
“A treasure only has value if we know of its existence, if its existence is known, we no longer go to libraries, we have lost our desire to read, but we all have our noses glued to our mobile phones,” said indicated the vice-president, initiator of archive Burkina, Martial Rigobert Tiendrebeogo.
He added that "that's why we wanted to promote our story through the networks and we see that its progress if from 40,000 members at the beginning, we are at 167,000 members in a few months".
Mr. Tiendrebeogo spoke on Tuesday in Ouagadougou, during the launch of the activities of the Association for the Promotion of Burkina Archives (APAB), under the theme: "Contributing to revealing the great men of our country to the youth through the archives ".
"And the questions that Internet users are asking through our publications show us that they want to know more," he added.
He specified that for people to be interested in culture, it would be good to bring this culture to these plates which are the small screens.
The president of the Association for the promotion of archives, Lucie Coulibaly Tapsoba indicated that the APAB collects all that is audio-visual which can help culture.
"It's our life, it's our identity," she said.
The principal of Nelson Mandela High School, Alexandre Belem said that archives in general are still important.
“We are an educational school setting, we teach some of its information to students and this initiative is like an opportunity to reinforce student learning,” he added.
Mr. Belem found the activity to be an opportunity to reinforce our students' learning.
Source: Burkina Information Agency