Identités en conflit : l’état civil burkinabè dans le quotidien de la communauté lyele

The situation in Burkina Faso is at the heart of a conflictual relationship between official provision and the system of community referencing, through the imposition in recent years of matching the "name" of "children" with that of the father from the beginning first vital document that is the birth certificate. This contradicts the principle of identifying "children" in certain communities, especially among the Lyele, a social group where children have different "names" depending on whether they are girls or boys. This upsets the daily life of this community where the law institutes virtual identities that create a cognitive conflict, a signifying/signified opposition that upsets the intelligibility patterns of reality.Thus, this contribution seeks to show that, because the lyele identity is the product of a cultural construction of the feminine and of the masculine, the standardization of the genders that the civil status brings raises the confusion in this society with differentiated statutes and sounds like a questioning of their cultural identity.