THE SONG OF LIWAAGA, A THERAPY FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE (IDPS)

Abstract

The Sahelian countries have been experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian and social crisis for some time which leads their populations into insecurity, poverty and flight. This exodus of populations in search of security from the countrysides to urban centers is not without challenges. Due to such a humanitarian catastrophe, how can we survive when we have almost lost everything? Is it not necessary to reinvent mechanisms that give life and hope to these internally displaced people (IDPs)? It is in this respect that this study is conducted, which analyzes the liwaaga song “Gandaad-a taaba” as a kind of remedy, a catharsis to the traumas experienced and suffered by IDPs. More precisely, it is a question of offering the Burkinabè populations a model of resilience, a reason for relief and appeasement of the ills engraved in the minds through satire and the intra and extra diegetic stagings offered by this song. As a result, ethnolinguistics will constitute the analytical tool that will make it possible to reveal these healing elements of song capable of rocking bruised hearts, restoring a taste for life and instilling grains of hope in IDPs.