2023-05-02 13:53:41
the 20thth edition of the National Culture Week is in full swing in the city of Sya. A tour of the cultural and commercial fair installed on the site of the biennial reveals the appreciation of exhibitors from here and elsewhere of the market and the holding of the 2023 edition despite adversity.
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Today is Monday, May 1, 2023, two days after the official launch of activities for the 20th edition of the SNC Bobo 2023. We approached the exhibitors to take the temperature of the market of the trade and cultural fair boiling with people.
Ms. Toé Roseline, exhibitor from Burkina Faso, has been present on the site since April 29, the opening day of the SNC. She offers Brazilian soaps, clear nature scrub, African tea sets, kitchen utensils, as well as Koko dunda loincloth, “original cultural products”, according to herself.
She says she rented her tent for sixty-five thousand (65,000) FCFA, plus insurance for five thousand (5,000) FCFA. Something that Mrs. Toé had found affordable at the start. But as she says, There are people, but there is no market at the moment. And I’m regretting, because the turnover I make outside in a day, I can’t do that here in 3 days ».
But never mind, holding this 20th edition of the SNC is a relief for the exhibitor. ” It’s been postponed twice, that we can hold it this year it enchants us ».
Not far from there stands the stall of Madame Compaoré née Guébré Zalissa. Also a Burkinabè exhibitor who wholesales Bogolan loincloths. The Bogolan proposed by Mrs. Compaoré is the product of the hands of valiant Bobolais craftsmen, she says.
She sells the piece of 3 loincloths at 7000 CFA francs. To hear it, things are taking off slightly and she is crossing her fingers for a good performance at the end of the 2023 edition of the cultural biennale. At its level too, the price of the tents are affordable.
Another tent just on the right side, it is Mrs. Zouré Setou, exhibitor of the city of Sya, who is the boss. She sells incense, women’s secrets, bagpipes, but also clothes. Listening to it, incense is used to perfume the house.
However the secrets of women, it is to solidify the hearths well. There is what we introduce, there are others, we boil a drink, and there are others who treat infections, painful periods, white discharge. There are also others to help men… understand what! “explains Mrs. Zouré with a smile. The market takes off slowly, although it describes the difficult access to the site. She hopes to come out of it with a good turnover as well as good contacts.
A few steps away, we also met Madame Charlotte, an exhibitor from Benin. She exhibits natural products such as turmeric, “ very good for health, more than 300 virtues. We have fresh, powder, oil. We have the fact that everyone can come and buy to plant. Apart from that, we have other products such as black soap, aloe will see soap, products against fibroids, cysts, myomas, even for men who cannot conceive, we have a bit of everything “, she haggles.
It has a well displayed marketing capacity. After two days of presence, she harbors the hope of making a good turnover. “People ask and promise to iron “. For her, the prices of the tents are affordable but the interior is limited. “That’s why we couldn’t expose everything. The products are still packed, soon we will have to review that “, she underlines.
Ms. Charlotte had long dreamed of participating in the SNC. Even if the postponements have delayed the fulfillment of this dream, this year is the right one. Very joyful, she prays that Burkina Faso, a country of culture, finds its peace of yesteryear.
A stopover at Mam Diarra, a Senegalese exhibitor, a regular at the Burkinabè market who offers Senegalese-type clothes as well as Bayas. For the moment, the market is not yet to his liking. But Mam Diarra enjoys life in Bobo-Dioulasso.
« Burkina is very good, especially Bobo, they are very nice “, she expresses. She is not at ease in the language of Molière, yet Wolof is not commonplace in Burkina Faso, and we continue.
Mali is part of it. Madame Ilboudo Laïla Haidara came with magical recipes from Timbuktu. Incense, women’s secrets as well as for men, clothes and many other items are on display. ” That people come out massively to see our products because we came for them “, she sums up.
The country guest of honor welcomes us. Blonca Traoré, a Guinean exhibitor offers Guinean Kendili clothes, with books written in local languages. She is engaged in the promotion of N’Ko. (The N’ko is an alphabet used to write the West African Mandinka languages, editor’s note).
Its slogan is “self-knowledge”. Blonca Traoré is convinced that a man cannot succeed outside his culture. Its presence on the SNC website has a double meaning. Respond to Burkina Faso’s call for friendship as guest of honor but also promote African culture.
Her speech is pan-Africanist even if she seems not to study. “We don’t want division in Africa. We also want to promote Mandé, because it concerns Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Senegal and of course all of West Africa,” she advocates.
She is a regular in Burkina Faso for having participated several times in the SIAO. Blonca Traoré is full of praise for the country of honest men for its cultural creativity. The National Week of Culture, SNC Bobo 2023, follows its course with serenity…
Akim KY
Burkina 24
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