The study of culture and its embodiment within the urban environment can be challenging. This challenge is more remarkable in Africa, specifically in Burkina Faso. Despite that Ouagadougou has become a metropolitan hub within the surrounding cities, academic literature in the role of music in urban development is not well traced within a geographical perspective.Hence the interest of this paper. Highlighting then urban music production through the local language, while emphasizing the role of the artists who have supported the rise of urban music in Burkina Faso, is something that should be encouraged. It may be of interest to geographers to seek an understanding of the urban process and its dynamics in this context. The aim of this study is to contribute to the enrichment of musical literature by focusing on local culture that uses the local language, such as Moore, in the production of urban music and its globalization.This study draws on the evolution of music and the main contributors in Burkina Faso. It considers music as a process of production and reproduction of the urban environment. Therefore, we have considered cultural history, the cultural landscape, and urban ecology as the fundamental concepts and theories, through which a methodological approach can be developed to outline the elements that have guided the “urbanization” of Burkina Faso local culture. How a local language like Moore hasbecome an instrument in shaping urban music is one of the questions that may find its answer within the role played by the first generation of musicians, and by the second generation represented by Alif Naaba and Floby, including the renewed interest of the urban population in reconnecting with their local heritage.
