Boumdoudoum, also spelt Boundoudoum or Boudoudoum, is a village in the
Baskouré Department
Baskouré is a Departments of Burkina Faso, department of Kouritenga Province in eastern Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Baskouré. According to the 2006 census the department has a total population of 11,723.
Towns and villages
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of
Kouritenga Province
Kouritenga (sometimes spelt Kourittenga) is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, located in its Centre-Est Region. In 2019, the province had a population of 479,930. in the
Centre-Est region
Centre-Est (, "East Central") is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative Regions of Burkina Faso, regions. The population of Centre-Est was 1,578,075 in 2019. The region's capital is Tenkodogo. Three Provinces of Burkina Faso, provinces (Boulgou, ...
of
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...
. It had a population of 413 in 2006.
Beginning in 2004,
New High School (de) in
Oldenburg Oldenburg may also refer to:
Places
* Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica
*Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany
**Oldenburg (district), a district historically in Oldenburg Free State and now in Lower Saxony
* Ol ...
, Germany has been in a partnership with a village school of Boumdoudoum. The high school founded the organisations of Boumdoudoum
AG in 2005 and the Boumdoudoum Development Association in 2007 to organise its operations in the village, as well as development aid projects at the high school itself.
Economy
In 2004, the Oldenburg-Boumdoudoum partnership reported that there were 3 wells in the village, 21 families sharing a well each. A few families had a plough pulled by donkey or oxen. Besides agriculture, cattle farming was also being done.
Housing
A typical housing collective in Boumdoudoum consists of several round houses of clay with thatched roofs. The houses are connected with clay walls or straw mats and enclose an inner courtyard. In the courtyard there is a small house. In the huts, family members sleep on the floor in groups of the same sex and social hierarchy. Belongings are stored on the floor of the huts or hung on a cord.
Education
The village has a primary school, l'École de Boumdoudoum, which in 2004 supported 52 pupils. The construction of a school kitchen and multimedia building in the school had been initiated in part by the Boumdoudoum Development Association.
There are no secondary schools; the closest one is in
Baskouré
Baskouré, also spelt Baskoure, is the capital town of the Baskouré Department of Kouritenga Province in the Centre-Est region of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to th ...
, 2 to 5 km away, the Collège d'enseignement général de Baskouré.
Demographics
As of 2004, 64 families lived in the village.
Neighbourhoods
References
Populated places in the Centre-Est Region
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