Since January 15, 2016, the historical date of the terrorist attack on the Cappuccino café restaurant in the hSeart of the capital Ouagadougou, the sociopolitical and security situation in Burkina Faso has continued to exacerbate. In
addition, a succession of coups d’état toppled the democratically-elected expresident Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri
Sandaogo Damiba replaced on January 24, 2022, who in turn was overthrown
by Captain Ibrahim Traoré on September 30, 2022. In such a troubled sociopolitical context, it is customary to hear the voices of political players, civil society, the international community and certain cultural players, about the
problems of the moment and their solutions. With this in mind, we take a look
at the musical discourse of two comedy groups, “Les séparables” and “Dabross
feat El présidente BF”, who perform musical parody while painting a picture of
the country’s socio-political realities. Told in a comic register, this speech depicts the socio-political and security reality and draws the attention of the actors to certain misbehaviors. The study aims to analyze the musical discourse
of these cultural actors by describing: 1) The overall communication situation
that characterizes their discourse on the one hand; 2) The positioning strategies
of these humorists concerning the country’s socio-political problems on the
other. The study falls within the field of discourse analysis and draws on the
works of Charaudeau, P. The study reveals that various socio-political and security problems characterize the global and specific communication situation
of political actors and society

Discourse Analysis, Burkina Faso, Humour, Music, Socio-Political Situation