Contemporary
Africa Database -- Burkina Faso (http://www.africaexpert.org/nav/countries/country5.html)
Database searchable by subject category or personal name; provides some information
on Burkina Faso editors, journalists, writers, dancers and choreographers,
etc. Based in London.
FESPACO, Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision
de Ouagadougou -- Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (http://www.fespaco.bf)
In French and English. Official web site for film industry. Links to issues of
FESPACO Newsletter and FESPACO News; includes information on their film library,
publications, annual events, hotels, restaurants.
International Craft Show of Ouagadougou (http://www.siao.bf)
In French and English. Rich site with text and photographs, extensive links,
showing samples of textiles, shoe making, sculpture, painting, jewelry, pottery
and basket weaving, furniture, musical instruments, etc. from the exhibition;
includes information on selection criteria, hotels in Ouagadougou, links to “partner
web sites.”
Kuba, Richard and Carola Lentz - "The Dagara and Their Neighbors (Burkina
Faso and Ghana)" from the Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography (http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/ejab/7/index.html)
877 bibliographic entries consisting of books, journal articles, theses, and
book chapters, in English, French, German or Italian, on such diverse topics
as economy, society, language, literature, and history.
Musée Virtuel du Burkina Faso (http://www.musee.bf/bf1.htm)
Canadian Museum of Civilization site; includes page on Burkina Faso, collection
of masks, with extensive descriptions; text in French only; English is not yet
available.
O.L.A.T.S (L'Observatoire Leonardo des arts et
des technosciences) (http://www.olats.org/)
In French and English. Includes biographies of artists and contact information
in Afrique Virtuelle; some from Burkina Faso.
Roy, Christopher
- Village Activities (Streaming Content) (http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eafricart/streaming%5Fcontent.html)
Nine videos of diverse village activities in Burkina Faso, including making pottery,
mask dance, initiation. Produced by professor of art and art history, University
of Iowa.
Roy,
Christopher D. - The Art of Burkina Faso (http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eafricart/Art%20of%20Burkina%20Faso.html)
Full text of a book by Roy, Professor of Art History, University of Iowa. Topics
include: Demography, History, the Mossi (Masks, Figures, Dolls, Zazaido crests),
Gurunsi Masks, Bwa Masks, Bobo Masks, the Marka Dafing, Furniture, Pottery, Jewelry,
Weaving, a cross-cultural comparative stylistic summary of mask styles, and a
bibliography.
Thompson, Barbara
- "The Earth Transformed: Ceramic Arts of Africa" (http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/african-ceramic-arts/)
Includes photographs, artist profiles, full text articles on various topics such
as Jula pottery of southwestern Burkina Faso; provides bibliography of printed
resources, related links. Part of the Virtual Research Center for African Ceramics
Project, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa. |