Cartoons in Burkina Faso Inform Locals about ICT
News
Jun 02 2010, Burkina Faso [BF]
- Source:
- Miep Lenoir [mlenoir(at)iicd.org]
- Country:
- Burkina Faso [BF]
- Sector:
A series of cartoons about using information and communication technologies are used in Burkina Faso to inform people in a funny way about computers and the internet. The hand painted cartoons were commissioned by Burkina Faso’s national ICT4D network Burkina NTIC, which is supported by IICD.
The cartoons show various traditional Burkinabe settings with a
technology component added. For instance one cartoon shows a woman
visiting a psychic to ask him if her husband still loves her. The
fortune teller has a computer next to him and says: “No worries madam,
my computer knows everything.”
Another cartoon is called ‘watch out for computer viruses’ and
shows a traditional healer trying to cure the computer with some of his
instruments while saying: “my counter spell is stronger than
you!”
Burkina NTIC
shared the cartoons through various social media platforms such as NING.
The cartoons are painted by Rasmané Kabré, a painter from
Ouagadougou. He
was also featured on ‘TV Wagues’, an online video channel created by Yam
Pukri, the coordinator of Burkina’s National ICT4D Network.