Ouagadougou: Journalist Téwendé Zoundi, at the end of her training at the Institute of Information and Communication Sciences and Techniques (ISTIC), chose to present her production in the national mooré language, in order to to raise awareness among more citizens about unsanitary conditions in the commune of Ouagadougou. The jury judged his work to be topical and of public interest and awarded him a very honorable mention with a score of 18.50/20.
To obtain her assistant diploma in Information and Communication Sciences and Techniques, journalism option, Téwendé Zoundi, intern at ISTIC, supported her end-of-cycle production on Tuesday July 2 in Ouagadougou in front of the jury in national language mooré.
The candidate Téwendé Zoundi defended her 26-minute documentary entitled: ‘Waogdg r?gdã waa…’ or ‘Haro on unsanitary conditions in Ouagadougou’, a journalistic work which raises awareness among city dwellers of the need to preserve the city from filth.
‘My motivation is that the majority of the population
did not go to school. This is why I used the national Moore language, since many citizens only understand this language, to be able to convey the message that I have to convey,’ she maintained.
The future journalist, passionate about the Moore language since her primary school, promised to make a career in journalism in the national language.
For the production director and journalism teacher, Yacouba Traoré, producing in the national language remains an original dimension in the world of student productions at the ISTIC level.
‘If we take the case of China or England, the documentary has a name in Chinese and in English. I think we must follow the same path because, as I said earlier, any language that the people speak, which is not their language, is a language of domination,’ noted Mr. Traoré.
The supervisor of the candidate Zoundi also welcomed the fact that the Burkinabe government has established local languages ??as national and working languages, everything according to him, which constitutes a sy
mbol of independence.
The president of the jury and teacher at Joseph Ki-Zerbo University, Dr François Issoufou Tirogo, for his part praised the courage of the applicant for having launched into the national languages ??sector.
‘We found it to be a work of fine quality because it had the advantage of reaching a large audience through the use of the national language,’ he explained.
In the opinion of Dr Tirogo, this will have a positive impact on eco-citizenship in the commune of Ouagadougou.
The journalistic production of Téwendé Zoundi, judged to be topical and of public interest, was awarded a very honorable mention with a score of 18.50/20.
The 26-minute documentary film by the ICST assistant is the second production in the national Mooré language after the introduction of national languages ??(Mooré, Dioula, Fulfuldé, etc.) in the training curricula at ISTIC, in journalism and communication. .
Source: Burkina Information Agency