Titinga Frédéric Pacéré (born 1943) is a Burkinabé

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, writer, poet and griot and founder and curator of the

Musée de Manega Musée de Manega or Manega Museum is a museum located 55 km (34 mi) northwest of the city Ouagadougou, in the village of Manega, Burkina Faso. It was established by Frédéric Pacéré Titinga. The museums contains the "Boura flutes," ar ...

museum in Burkina Faso. He studied in Abidjan. He has written over twenty books and published 60 volumes and has been awarded the medal of honour of the Association of French speaking writers (A.D.E.L.F.). He was awarded the 1982 Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire for two of his works, ''Poèmes pour l'Angola'' (1982) and ''La Poésie des griots'' (1982). Other works include ''Refrains sous le Sahel'' (1976), ''Quand s'envolent les grues couronnées'' (1976), and ''Du lait pour une tombe'' (1984).

Works

Literature

* ''Ça tire sous le Sahel'' 1976 * ''Refrains sous le Sahel'' 1976 * ''Quand s'envolent les grues couronnées'' 1976 * ''La poésie des griots'' 1983 * ''Poème pour l'Angola'' 1983 * ''Poème pour Koryo'' 1986 * ''Livre, culture et développement'' 1989 * ''Des entrailles de la terre'' 1990 * ''Dim-Dolobsom'' * ''La Bendrologie ou la science du langage tambouriné'' * ''Bendr'N Gomdé'' * ''Le langage des tam-tams et des masques en Afrique'' 1992 * ''Saglego, la poésie du tam-tam'' 1994

Essays and art related publications

* ''Problématique de l'aide aux pays sous-développés'' 1976 * ''Ainsi on a assassiné tous les Mossé'' 1979 * ''L'artisan du Burkina'' 1987 * ''Les Yakouga ou pierre tombales du Burkina'' 1993

Sociology and laws

* ''La famille voltaïque en crise'' 1976 * ''L'avortement et la loi'' 1983 * ''Les enfants abandonnés'' 1990 * ''Les personnes handicapées'' 1990

''Ainsi on a assassiné tous les Mossé''

The English translation of the book's title is ''So they murdered all Mossi people''. It was first edited in 1979 by Naaman Editions (Canada) and re-edited in 1994 by Edition Fondation Pacere. This essay describes the "anti-history" principle, one of the main ones guiding the design of Mossi people's society and the destruction of their civilization along with colonization. Simply stated, anti-history consists of acknowledging that human societies' goal is to make people live happily. When a society can use acquired resources to perpetuate a steady state of fulfillment, it must stop trying to get more (because that would result in disequilibrium) and perpetuate the means and forces that maintain that society in that steady state. Then, the society will have to work against changes and against time to maintain the equilibrium over generations: That is the origin of the term "anti-history". Anti-history and equilibrium are the very core principles of the Mossi civilization which as said in ''Ainsi on a assassiné tous les Mossé'' no longer effectively exists.Ainsi on a assassiné tous les Mosse, essai témoignage, Edition Fondation Pacere, Manega 1994

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