TITLE:
Sociability Networks in the City of Bujumbura
AUTHORS:
Oscar Toyi, Ildephonse Sindayigaya
KEYWORDS:
Burundi, Bujumbura, Social Network, Cooperative, Women’s Association, Taxi-Velo
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.8,
August
16,
2023
ABSTRACT: Faced with the profound changes predicting transformations in the
mindsets, Bujumbura got a new look that created social networks. The target of this article is to analyze the role and
importance of social networks in the everyday life of Bujumbura citizens. The
researcher used documentary techniques to inquire through some associations’
reports and their statutes what their objective is, aiming to survey how useful
networking socially is. Results show that people in Bujumbura are gathered in
associations especially according to professions such as driving bicycles
(taxi-velo), and women who sew clothes. Results confirm that networking is also
operational among people according to the generation whether old people or
youth helping one atoner. Results finally attest that, in Bujumbura, in
compliance with the law on cooperatives, even though membership in associations
is free, social networks formed in cooperatives (Sangwe) are viewed as having a
political-eyed target spread on every hill or quarter in the country but their
members, though thriving to succeed, are
facing many problems even though they are founded by the governmental budget.
Social networks are of great importance in Bujumbura in as much as Burundi
esteems that development is quickly achieved in group than being alone.