Il était une fois à Ouahigouya (2024)
In "Il était une fois à Ouahigouya", Patricia Bourcillier invites us to share the remarkable experience she and her husband, Bernd Sebastian Kamps, had during a three-month stay in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) in 1977.
Her account takes us to Ouahigouya in the northwest of "Mossi country", where, thanks to an unconventional fellowship, the couple was immersed in the daily life of a rural society where poverty was met with generosity and sharing.
Their friendship with Moussa and their conversations with him and his peers are moments of reflection on political anger, struggle, and hope on the eve of a revolution. This book is an invitation to dialogue, to openness to others, and to the journeys that shape our understanding of the world.
