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Published on 2024-04-05 11:58:40
Burkina/Media: Staff of the National Daily Urged to Perpetuate a 40-Year Legacy
Ouagadougou, April 5, 2024 (Africa Links 24) – On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the “Journal de tous les Burkinabè,” the Director General of ‘Éditions Sidwaya,’ Assétou Badoh, urged her colleagues on Friday to be proud of their jewel and to work towards perpetuating a “national heritage.”
“I would like to express to you all my admiration and congratulate you on the fight you are waging to keep this newspaper, which is a legacy, very high. It is a national heritage!” declared the Director General of ‘Éditions Sidwaya,’ Assétou Badoh/Guira, to her colleagues on Friday morning.
The workers of the “Journal de tous les Burkinabè” had just sung the national anthem to mark the 40 years of their media’s existence.
“It is a legacy and we have the obligation to perpetuate it from generation to generation,” recommended Assétou Badoh.
She urged her colleagues to value their newspaper and to be “proud to be employees of Sidwaya.”
Ms. Badoh also paid tribute to those who had the idea to create the newspaper, to the previous General Directors, and to all the employees who have given at least a day of their lives to “the common House.”
As a reminder, the national daily Sidwaya was founded on April 5, 1984, by the revolutionary regime of President Thomas Sankara (1983-1987).
In the first editorial, the Minister of Information, Adama Touré, explained that Sidwaya, which means “the truth has come,” is an essential tool for the information and permanent mobilization of the people for the development and consolidation of the democratic and popular Revolution.
“Sidwaya must be at the same time the voice of the Voltaic people and all its revolutionary organizations to express every day their concerns, aspirations, and to magnify their struggles against their enemies for the construction of a new Upper Volta (former name of Burkina Faso) rid of imperialist domination and exploitation,” he added.
Since 1999, the daily Sidwaya and the Burkina Information Agency (created in 1964) have been merged to give birth to the press group “Les Éditions Sidwaya.”
In May, the group will cumulatively celebrate the 40 years of Sidwaya and the 60 years of Africa Links 24 through several activities.
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Read the original article(French) on Agence d’Information du Burkina
