ABSTRACT
In the Gnlmanceba community in eastern Burkina Faso in Africa, a researcher is called O liingdo, O Baando, or Djaaba, terms that are used interchangeably. This chapter discusses a case of participatory methods on social accountability of local governments, as well as food security, that illustrate the use of the content of the granary. Instead, Issaka Herman Traore started working as a development worker with communities in the eastern region of Burkina Faso known as the Gulmu Region. As a development professional, Bernard Ledea Ouedraogo discovered in the northern region of Burkina Faso that there was an Indigenous technique of soil and water conservation called zai that the farmers in this region used in the ancient time to cope with droughts and rainfall shortage. Burkina Faso, a nation concerned with modernization and a Western way of life and thinking, is a community within which Indigenous research is not mainstreamed.
