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Resume Les transformations importantes qu’a connues le processus de constitution de la famille dans les villes africaines au cours des dernieres decennies se sont accompagnees de bouleversements tout aussi marquants dans les relations intergenerationnelles. Les statistiques sur le sujet demeurent pourtant rares. En mobilisant les donnees d’une enquete realisee en 2010 a Ouagadougou, la capitale du Burkina Faso, l’etude explore l’implication des parents dans la selection des conjoints, le mariage et l’entree en maternite des jeunes adultes. Malgre une liberte manifeste des jeunes dans le choix de leurs partenaires, le mariage demeure une «affaire de famille» a Ouagadougou et les parents sont encore tres impliques dans le paiement de la dot. Le role des «vieilles», et notamment celui de la belle-mere, dans la transmission du savoir maternel et dans l’assistance des jeunes meres apres la naissance demeure egalement central, et ce, peu importe le profil socio-economique et culturel des jeu­nes femmes. Abstract The major transformations observed over the last decades in the process of family formation in African cities seem to have been accompanied by equally important changes in intergenerational relationships. Statistics on the topic are rare, however. Using unique survey data collected among young adults in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso in 2010, the study assesses the extent of the involvement of parents in the partner selection, marriage and transition to motherhood of their adult children. Despite clear indication of freedom of partner choice among youth, the study suggests that marriage in Ouagadougou remains a «family business» and parents are still actively involved in bridewealth payment in the majority of marriages. Female elders, especially «mothers-in-law», also remain central in the transmission of maternity knowledge and assistance of young mothers after birth, regardless of young women’s socioeconomic and cultural profiles.

Generational control over young urban couples in West Africa : Involvement of elders in union formation and infant care in Ouagadougou