Archival Documents on Upper Volta: Here, There, and Everywhere
Archival Documents on Upper Volta: Here, There, and Everywhere
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上沃尔特的档案文件：这里、那里、无处不在
DOI：
10.2307/3171983
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发表时间：
1993
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通讯作者：
R. Gervais
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作者：
R. Gervais
殖民地对领土完整的政策的波动不是没有影响的，首先是对这些殖民地的人民，然后是对他们自己的行政组织。上沃尔特（现在的布基纳法索）殖民统治的曲折历史就是一个例子。1919年，为了使行政管理合理化，上沃尔特作为一个自治殖民地幸存下来，直到1933年1月，它被正式肢解。西北部（即，瓦希古亚）割让给法属苏丹，中部和西南部地区（莫西和波波）割让给科特迪瓦，东部地区（法达恩古马）的一小部分割让给尼日尔。经过艰苦的谈判，上沃尔特的殖民地于1947年重建。研究过法兰西帝国这一地区的研究人员都知道，行政安排的每一次调整都会导致人员和文件被转移到新的中心--阿比让、尼亚美或巴马科。在整理用于研究该地区历史的整套档案文件方面，这种体制性限制因独立后的一个众所周知的症状而得到加强：官僚主义泛滥。事实上，布基纳法索可能是世界上唯一一个拥有档案人员多于有组织档案的国家。档案局在1980年代有十几名档案管理员，但没有编制一份关于在首都（瓦加杜古）或各地区可以找到的档案的清单，尽管被任命到具体部委的档案管理员或外籍研究人员做了重要的工作。
Fluctuations of colonial policies toward territorial integrity were not without effects, first on the people of these colonies and then on the organization of their own administration. A case in point is the tortuous history of colonial administration in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Created in 1919 out of the oversized Haut-Sénégal-Niger—which extended from the Sénégal river to lake Chad—in order to rationalize the administration Upper Volta survived as an autonomous colony until January 1933, when it was officially dismembered. The northwestern part (i.e., Ouahigouya) was ceded to the French Sudan, the central and southwestern regions (Mosi and Bobo) to Côte d'Ivoire, and a small portion of the eastern portion (Fada N'Gourma) to Niger. After harsh negotiations the colony of Upper Volta was recreated in 1947. Researchers who have worked on this part of the French empire know that every adjustment brought to the administrative arrangement also caused personnel and documents to be displaced to the new centers—Abidjan, Niamey, or Bamako. This institutional constraint on the organization of complete sets of archival documents for the study of the region's past has been strengthened by a well-known post-independence symptom: bureaucratic plethora. Indeed Burkina Faso is probably the only country in the world to possess more archivists than organized archives. The Direction des archives, with its dozen archivists in the 1980s, had not produced a single inventory of what could be found in the capital (Ouagadougou) or in the regions, although important work had been done by individual archivists appointed to specific Ministries or by expatriate researchers.