Establishment in Burundi of the CERDOTOLA regional office for Eastern and Southern Africa

On thursday september 1, 2022, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation HE Albert SHINGIRO and the Executive Secretary of the International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages ​​(CERDOTOLA) Mr. Charles BINAM BIKOI signed a headquarters agreement for the establishment of the CERDOTOLA regional office for Eastern and Southern Africa in Burundi.

After the signing, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation announced that he was delighted with the establishment of this regional office in Burundi. He indicated that this establishment has advantages on two counts, namely the close collaboration between the Institution and the Government of Burundi so that Burundi’s efforts in the promotion of Culture and Scientific Research can be supported by the organization on the one hand, and allow Burundian citizens to have work within this organization on the other hand. He thus promised to work closely with the Executive Secretary of CERDOTOLA but also through the Representative of the Institution in Bujumbura.

The Executive Secretary of the International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages ​​(CERDOTOLA) has meanwhile indicated that Burundi is at the center of all the concerns that are those of Africa in terms of rebirth, regeneration of the African spirit and dissemination of African values, values ​​of civilization in the history of Africans in the world. Mr. Charles BINAM BIKOI explained: “Burundi by hosting this office, takes back the place that has never ceased to be its own, Burundi is at the heart of Africa but also a crossroads of civilization, a crossroads of peoples from Africa which means that when you are in Burundi you are in Africa. Establishing the regional office of CERDOTOLA in Burundi then gives Burundi the opportunity to be the showcase of this Organization, the showcase of the African soul in reconstruction, the showcase of the effort of the African man to regain his footing in a world that is his hostile for 600 years. He indicated that with all the above, we see a very natural added value which means that the regional office will be the resonance and redundancy of the spirit of the headquarters of CERDOTOLA which is in YAOUNDE.

Let us remind that CERDOTOLA is a Cultural and Scientific Institution that has been set up by African States for 45 years, with the mandate of collecting, developing, promoting and enhancing African cultures, which we call the traditions, but also the exploitation and documentation of the languages ​​of Africa which are the vectors of the culture.

In the evening the two parties and guests met at the Tanganyika Lake View Hotel to share a drink, in a good climate and wind from Lake Tanganyika.