Burkina Faso: statue of the woman in Bobo-Dioulasso
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The new statue with a woman holding a torch, in Bobo-Dioulasso.
© RFI / Yaya Boudani
By: Yaya Boudani Follow
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When you enter the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, the economic capital of the country, a statue welcomes you.
This statue represented a woman holding a broom.
Installed to magnify the fight of women for the development of the city of Sya.
But in 2010, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the country's independence, a new statue with a woman holding a torch replaced the old one.
Fruit of the struggle of women's associations.
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This statue has undergone metamorphosis, but many inhabitants of the city of Bobo-Dioulasso consider it a simple object of decoration, for lack of an explanatory campaign.
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