Burkina: ‘Sambissi’ call to safeguard sanctuaries and other sacred places

The ‘Sambissi’ Association, which is celebrating its 32 years of existence, called on Saturday to preserve sacred places, to adopt a Kamit-Gregorian calendar as well as a single act of customary, religious and civil marriages, noted the AIB.

The Sambisi Solidarity of Youth for Development association, on the occasion of the delayed celebration of its 32 years of existence, explained to journalists on Saturday, September 30, 2023 in Ouagadougou, the initiatives it is pursuing.

The Founding Father of Sambisi, Yarga Ouédraogo, pleaded for the safeguarding of caves, sanctuaries and other sacred places.

These places ‘are none other than where our ancestors lived and are natural open-air museums to safeguard for our culture and even for tourism,’ he added.

Sambisi, which means brothers and sisters in the national Moore language, also wants the adoption of a single act of customary, religious and civil marriages.

We recall that the Ministry in charge of Justice considered in September 2022, proposals for a p
reliminary bill, which should make it possible to recognize customary marriages (PPS and similar) and religious marriages (in mosques, churches, Temples…).

In agreement with the Kamite movements, the association also campaigns for the inclusion of a single Kamit-Gregorian calendar.

Copies of this calendar were distributed on site and we see that we are in the third month of the year 6260 of the Kamit era, while the usual or Gregorian calendar displays September 2023.

Yarga Ouédraogo and other members intend to launch a citizen campaign to collect information for the development of the directory of Burkinabè family names.

‘If this story of surnames was mastered, we would all be brothers. Now we are told that we, the current mossis, are the descendants of the grandsons of the Dagara. But is there any harm in that? Every person is linked to the other,’ he argued.

In his program of activities, Sambisi planned the organization of an intercommunity decade for peace.

The association also positions itself as a
fervent defender of the family whose role is ‘irreplaceable for the development of society and all those who live there’.

For Yarga Ouédraogo, we must respect and ensure respect for human life from its conception until natural death.

‘We must guarantee the stability of homes and allow couples to experience responsible fatherhood and motherhood, resisting the invasion of methods that go against the dignity of women, and thereby do not honor not the man,’ he concluded

Source: Burkina Information Agency