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: December 2012
Elie Justin Ouédraogo on the EITI process in Burkina Faso
A classic EITI obfuscation: the issue is what the government does with the money, and not whether the mining sector is being taxed too lightly. S : La transparence est très recommandée dans le secteur minier. Où en est-on avec … Continue reading
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Zéphirin Diabré on gold mining in Burkina Faso
Somewhat disappointing that he appears unprepared (he doesn’t seem to know that Burkina already has a 10% ownership stake in industrial mines according to the mining code). And he seems not to have read the EITI reports (which show an … Continue reading
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Soungalo Ouattara élu président de la 5e législature
The big fear was that somehow the president’s brother Francois would be elected president of the National Assembly right away. The post is important because it is next in line to the President of the Republic. But Ouattara is definitely … Continue reading
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Zéphirin Diabré sounds like a Republican moralizer here
I wish I knew more about what he has in mind, exactly. Burkina Faso has more divorced people, and kids of divorced parents maybe suffer some psychological traumas… but are those traumas greater than growing up in a home without … Continue reading
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Zéphirin Diabré the man of the hour in Burkina Faso
Diabré is a former deputy of the National Assembly in the 1990s, a Minister of Finance, he then served a time at UNDP, and also the French nuclear group Areva. He was a fellow for a year at Harvard (where … Continue reading
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Hijab and self-image
Perusing the catalog of a children’s publisher Kalimat in Emirates, suddenly realized that almost none of the women and girls depicted were wearing head scarves. Says something about what professional women want their children to think is “normal”: no head … Continue reading
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Make cracks about Stata, you gotta listen then to original Grog Moin from Haiti, and a cute dance version!
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Transposing and reshaping with string in Stata
stata transpose string variable without xpose « Economics should be open. http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?xpose http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/modules/reshapel.htm
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100 pages of projects for South Sudan and no libraries, no books… sigh.
South Sudan, poorest place on earth, but with a LOT of aid and oil money… large swathes of public services are run by the United Nations. Lee Crawford points to the newly issued Humanitarian Appeal for South Sudan and I … Continue reading
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Basic reinforcement of personhood for adolescent girls in West Africa
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Ross Douthat and Tyler Cowen need to read Sinclair Lewis’ Main Street
I am reading Sinclair Lewis’ Main Street, over the last few days, and I could swear one of the characters in the small town of Gopher Prairie, about which Lewis feels so ambivalent, mouths exactly Douthat’s lament… and that was … Continue reading
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Cell phones make people feel bad
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How to understand African economies like that of Burkina Faso
National statistics tell one part of the story, and Burkina Faso’s GDP per capita has been fairly steadily growing at about 2% per year for 20 years (but starting at a $500 per person base, that means the country is … Continue reading
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“Bull” by Mo Yan
I just read the story, by 2012 Nobel prize winner Mo Yan, last night. Pretty riveting, but also hard to understand without the full context. You wonder about how much is working as a broad allegory (and what it might … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 