Burkina Faso Archives and Libraries
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Archives[edit | edit source]
National Archives[edit | edit source]
National Archives Centre
BP 7030, Présidence du Faso
Zabre daaga, Ouagadougou - BURKIA FASO
Phone: +(226) 25 32 46 38
E-mail: dgan@dgan.com
Website
French Colonial Archives[edit | edit source]
1897-1919 - National Overseas Archives, Upper Volta (Haute-Volta)
Endangered Archives[edit | edit source]
Endangered Archives: Burkina Faso
Libraries[edit | edit source]
Bibliothèque nationale du Burkina Faso (National Library of Burkina Faso)
Ministère de la Culture des Arts et du Tourisme (Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism)
Avenue Pascal Zagre
01 BP 6436
Ouagadougou 01
Burkina Faso
Tel: +(226) 50 32 63 63
Fax: 226-50-33-09-61
E-mail: bnburkina@yahoo.fr
Museums[edit | edit source]
Google listing of museums in Burkina Faso
Record Offices[edit | edit source]
Ministry of Territorial Administration Decentralization and Security (MATDS)
Directorate of Civil Registration
Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
Avenue de l'Indépendance
Burkina Faso
Telephone: (226) 25 30 84 17
Telephone: (226) 25 31 68 91 / 25 31 68 92
E-mail(s): matd@gov.bf
Other places that have birth, marriage, and death records are the Directorate-General of Civil Registration Modernization (DGMEC) and the mayors of municipalities.
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Births and Deaths Places of registration: Chief towns of the department and the communes (primary centres); Health units in villages and sectors of towns and communes, place of birth (secondary centres)
Marriages Registration takes place at the level of the main civil status centres and the secondary centres, by the registrar of the place of residence of the spouses.