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Manega Museum

  • Manega village
    On the road from Ouagadougou to Kongoussi

Manega Museum

  • ezrab from Amstelveen
  • November 14, 2003
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Fifty kilometres north of the capital on the road to Kongoussi lies the village of Manega. The village accommodates a surprising museum on the traditional culture of Burkina Faso. It contains a beautiful collection of, among others, masks and musical instruments. A guide will provide a tour, which starts in a little hall where the legend of Princess Yennega is depicted with little statues. Afterwards, halls can be visited where various rites of funerals and festivities are explained. Finally, the tour ends in a garden where a number of traditional houses are built. In the vicinity, some large modern art forms decorate the landscape. Among them is a giant man with stick made entirely of iron.
From journal Touristic Hot Spots in Burkina Faso