Writer's journey:

Self-taught and passionate about books, after years in a rural environment between the Koranic school of the village, the initiation to breeding and agriculture and especially to the art of storytelling and orality in the pure African tradition , he returned to Ouagadougou in 2001 for a professional life in the book business. He opened a modest bookstore-library for the sale and exchange of books. It is from this experience that the young bookseller trains himself on the job in contact with his books. His passage in the traditional village school of rites and teachings was a great advantage for his literary training. Initiated to writing techniques through his meetings with Burkinabé writers such as Maitre PacéréTitinga and Ansomwin Ignace Hien, in 2005 he met Marie-France Morin, a Franco-Italian translator passionate about African literature. With his support and supervision on editorial technique, Ousseni Nikiéma entered the literary and artistic world of Burkina Faso on November 28, 2009 on the occasion of the Ouagadougou international book fair by presenting his first book Les Contes de Dunia was published by Éditions le LIS.
Preparing his second book, he met one of the theater pioneers in Burkina Faso, Prosper Kompaoré, director of the Atelier Théâtre Burkinabé (ATB). This collaboration will give him an academic training and bases in theatrical writing.