Burkina: death of Marie-Soleil Frère, Belgian specialist in African media
Display at the headquarters of the Association of Editors and Publishers of newspapers in national languages in Ouagadougou.
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The academic and African media specialist Marie-Soleil Frère passed away on the night of March 18 to 19.
Research director, she taught journalism at the Free University of Brussels, as she did at the University of Ouagadougou.
Author of several books, she focused her research on the role of the media in political developments in French-speaking Africa.
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Serge Théophile Balima is a professor at Joseph Ki Zerbo University in Ouagadougou.
He knew Marie-Soleil Frère when she arrived in Burkina Faso in the mid-1990s. He remembers a woman involved in research and who was particularly interested in African media.
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She has put a lot of effort into doing research in this area, both in the Great Lakes region and in West Africa,"
Serge Théophle Balima confides to RFI.
She has also greatly contributed to training a generation of journalists in Burkina Faso, truly a truly remarkable elite in our country.
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For Professor Joseph Ki Zerbo University, Marie-Soleil Frère “
was a committed woman who defended press freedom, who truly defended democracy and who stood for justice in our continents which seek each other.
She has always sided with associations, civil society organizations which campaign for the defense of human rights and which truly defend press freedom and the quality of journalism in the sub-region.
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To read and listen also: West Africa: "A journalist must always keep his critical distance"
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