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: November 2012
To my peeps in the Bay Area… Rainy Day Dream Away
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Ouattara dissolves Ivorian government over marriage law: must be more to story than this
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has sacked his government in a row over a new marriage law which would make wives joint heads of the household. Mr Ouattara’s party supported the changes but the members of the ruling coalition were … Continue reading
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Education and health and fertility in the United States
A quick glance at a paper by McCrary and Royer. They find: 1. School entry policies have large effects on schooling at motherhood: one-fourth of young Texas mothers born after the school entry date have a year less education than … Continue reading
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Geranium Cat’s Bookshelf: Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Thursbitch feels very much like a sequel to Red Shift to me, although the only connection is the intensity of its sense of place, and a setting geographically close, since Garner likes to write about the area around his home. … Continue reading
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Inestimable Susan Straight, author of short-story “Mines” with a timely opinion piece
SOMETIMES life is like a fun-house mirror, the glass and then the real thing. I had just watched the TV show “The New Normal,” a comedy about what used to be called untraditional families, for the first time, and the … Continue reading
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Cute, but the audience idolatry a little off-putting…. I’ve been able to be that kind of rabid “fan” who laughs and cheers at literally anything…. “a music stand”
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Justifications for spending public money….
A big part of development economics is about justifying expenditures of public monies. Why are people better off with spending tax money this way? Who is better off? Who is worse off? Why are those better off not able or … Continue reading
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Scary reporting from Adam Nossiter of NYT on Guinea-Bissau
Strictly for the Afro-pessimists…. Since the April 12 coup, more small twin-engine planes than ever are making the 1,600-mile Atlantic crossing from Latin America to the edge of Africa’s western bulge, landing in Guinea-Bissau’s fields, uninhabited islands and remote estuaries. … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 