The globalization of information and communication leads to a relatively violent shock between domestic cultures and world visions. The reduction of physical distances has increased cultural distances. In the head of Africa, people are troubled by the questions: how to educate their children? How to negotiate the distance between the child who is of his time and traditional cultural values? How to be both to the modern world, itself a symbol of europeanisation, while preserving one’s cultural identity? This thesis studies the relation of students and the media in Burkina Faso; it strives to describe the mentality and valors of parents and educators who daily face of media-saturated children. To avoid the latent generational conflict, media education does not target only the children. In Burkina Faso, while the adoption of signs icons targeting the young is itself a response to this major problem, its application is a daily exercise. How, for example ram one assert that a scene is indecent, violates morality and for whom? How to reconcile the desire for freedom of young people saturated by the media mostly produced and broadcast from elsewhere and the need to protect them from expose to content inappropriate? In other words, what is allowed, permissible, permitted or tolerated today was not so yesterday, may and indeed has been elsewhere, unthinkable, unacceptable, intolerable and reprehensible. An analysis of the curricula of the Burkina Faso shows that the burkinabé education system must urgently face the issue of the media in a context where, on one hand the rivalry between the media and the school systems remains a reality, and where on other hand democracy is still “work-in-progress”.
