Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga

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Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga (born May 10, 1947 in Yako ( Upper Volta , today Burkina Faso )) is an archaeologist and historian. He comes from the West African state of Burkina Faso and has been a professor at the University of Ouagadougou since 2005 .

Life

He first attended the primary school in Toma (Sourou), later the school facilities in Koudougou at the Lycée Philippe Zinda Kabore (LPZK) and graduated from there in 1967 with a baccalaureate . Kiéthéga then studied archeology and history in Dakar and at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1998 he was awarded the Dutch Prince Claus Prize . In 2007, Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga carried out an investigation into the missing weapons stocks by the French colonial army during the suppression of the uprisings between 1913 and 1916 in the Bwaba region .

Functions

In addition to his academic professions, he is or was still:

  • Secrétaire Général de la Direction de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (1981/1983)
  • Chef de département d'histoire et d'archéologie (1983/1985);
  • President of the Commission de programmation doctoral du département d'histoire et d'archéologie (1998)

Works (selection)

  • La métallurgie lourde du fer au Burkina Faso . Karthala, Paris 2008, ISBN 2845866909
  • L'Or de la Volta noire: Archeologie et Histoire de l'exploitation traditionnelle - Région de Poura, Haute-Volta, Karthala , Paris, 2000, ISBN 2865370887
  • The history of West Africa , together with Yénouyaba Georges Madiega as a website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Petite Académie@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.petiteacademie.gov.bf
  2. ↑ Prince Claus Awards ( Memento from April 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.nawao.org/seiten/kunst/a_kunst_01.html
  4. ↑ Website (French) ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.histoire-afrique.org
personal data
SURNAME Kiéthéga, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burkinabe archaeologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Yako , Upper Volta