Burkina Faso: Ada Yaya Bocoum
Ada Yaya Bocoum is the founder and manager of Africa Étudies SARL., an architecture and engineering agency located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (2010), where she is also an architect and urban planner. She holds a master’s in architecture from L’École Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme (EAMAU) in Lomé, Togo (2003). She served as Vice-President of the L’Ordre des Architectes du Burkina-Faso before being elected to serve as President (2023–2025), and served as Vice-President (January 2022–December 2024) and Secretary General of the Federation of French-Speaking Architects of Africa (FAFA) (January 2025–). She is the recipient of the Ordres BTP honorary trophy at the first edition of the Africa Infrastructure Forum hosted in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (2023).
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