FESPACO
Bassolet was the first director of the Agence voltaïque de Presse (AVP) from 1978 to 1981, which was later renamed the "Agence d'Information du Burkina" (AIB). He was one of the founders of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), and the author of the first major post-independence history of the nation.