Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Organisation d’une séance de lecture suivie de discussion
- Organisation de deux séances de lecture et d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Koumbia
- La lecture au cœur des esprits à la bibliothèque de Koho
- New library assistant at Sumbrungu Community Library
- Echange avec une usagère au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba
- Community libraries of Uganda association (CoLAU) updates for May 2026
- Sumbrungu community library packed with readers, Upper East, Ghana
- Organisation d’une séance de lecture individuelle à l’école Sainte-Thérèse de Houndé
- Animation littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Some photos from Bereba reading center
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Illiterate kids given sealed boxes with tablets figure out how to use, master, and hack them – Boing Boing
More idiotic hyperbole from the OLPC people, who want to take your money away from proper libraries with proper books. Ask yourself, if he has to outright lie about the product, why should anyone give any money to it? The … Continue reading
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Great video report by Koffi Amétépé on albinos in Burkina Faso
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Meet Don Francisco, Host of the TV Show ‘Sábado Gigante’
Otro articulo tan interesante, de mi hermana!!! This fall, the wildly popular Spanish-language television show Sábado Gigante Supersize Saturday—seen by millions of Hispanics around the world for two hours every Saturday afternoon—celebrates its 50th anniversary. This makes it, according to … Continue reading
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15 octobre 1987 analysis of interview of Sherif SY on Sankara’s death
Interrogé sur ses relations avec SANKARA et par la suite ce qu’ils se sont dit à leur dernière rencontre, il a déclaré ceci : « …si ma mémoire est bonne, je crois que la dernière fois que j’ai dû voir … Continue reading
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Stephen Pinker takes on “Silent Violence”
One of my PhD advisors at Berkeley was Michael Watts, whose wonderful, massive, and dense work Silent Violence was a great inspiration…. but like Pinker remember thinking that while I understood the argument– social structure led to outcomes, like death … Continue reading
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Moretti becomes the go-to geography pundit, and what does it mean for Burkina Faso?
I see Enrico Moretti’s name more and more, he’s on track to join the glitterati celebrity intellectuals… Here is is on the role of agglomeration in human capital The key to economic success? Geography – Global Public Square – CNN.com … Continue reading
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Even more evidence about how intuitively cooperative we are
We ask whether people are predisposed towards selfishness, behaving cooperatively only through active self-control; or whether they are intuitively cooperative, with reflection and prospective reasoning favouring ‘rational’ self-interest. To investigate this issue, we perform ten studies using economic games. We … Continue reading
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AIGA | Case Study: Neighborhoods and Shared Memories/Nuestros vecindarios y sus memorias
Mariano Desmaras was always “my friend’s little brother” but now here he is winning awards…. congratulations! And I see some inspiration for FAVL’s microbooks project here, as we shift into community history! “Neighborhoods and Shared Memories” (Nuestros vecindarios y sus … Continue reading
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No pity for disingenuous “no pity shit” aid op-ed
Publicity-hungry entrepreneurs have special advisors who sit in rooms all day cooking up catchy one-liners that will get them noticed, never mind the incoherence of whatever they have to say. The latest such is Magatte Wade, a Senegalese skin-care mogul-in-the-waiting … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 