École, langues, cultures et développement. Une analyse des politiques éducatives, linguistiques et culturelles postcoloniales au Burkina Faso

This text aims at grasping the use of the local languages and cultures (production activities) within reforms and other measures taken by the Burkinabe government since independence until today. At first, the text analyses the linguistic, cultural and educational policies of Burkina Faso. It argues that, against an individual promotion with the “French-speaking school capital” and to help the economy recover, the first postcolonial governments attempted to reform the school institution. In order to their goal, they build a formula linking primary education, local languages and cultures (work activities carried out by children) and self-development. Secondly, one argues that NGO’s, which are dominant in the school field in Burkina Faso, revive this formula in order to take up the school challenges imposed by the World Bank.