Contact Information

• Name:

  Centre National des Archives

• Postal Address:

  BP 7030
  Ouagadougou
  Burkina Faso

• Location:

  Présidence du Faso

• Telephone:

  (226) 33-61-96, 32-47-12, 32-46-38

• Facsimile:

  (226) 31-49-26

• E-mail:

  assaned49@yahoo.fr

• Director:

  Lt Colonel Assane Sawadogo

• Year founded:

  1970

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Archive

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Government records
  Maps
  Newspapers
  Photographs
  

• Size:

  1500 books; 45 periodical titles; 200 linear meters of classified archives

• Holdings:

  20 linear meters of colonial archives (AOF and Territoire de la Haute-Volta)<br> 180 linear meters of archives of Haute-Volta and Burkina Faso 1958-1992; 1500 works = administrative and judicial documentation; 45 foreign and national periodical titles

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  French, English
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  must register with an ID card

• Access restrictions:

  Those restricted by law

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Electronic catalogs
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

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