Monthly Archives: April 2013

About 43, for you centigrade people.  This in the partial shade of our custard apple tree.  Our fans working nonstop.  Nice couscous today.  Sukie chowing down; we had a brief discussion of why anyone would eat at McDonald’s when they … Continue reading →

Ugh… I daren’t actually listen.  But I actually did talk about the sequester in French, to VOA-West Africa.  I come on about half way through.

Sukie was signed up for djembe class (African drumming) at ISO, but I got the times wrong so we showed up at the end.  It looked fun, and several of her classmates are in the class.  So after we walked … Continue reading →

First the Sukie and personal news.  All was good.  We both got really good night sleep; Sukie fell asleep about 9pm reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins and she slept the whole night through, so now her plan tonite is to do … Continue reading →

Dropped Sukie off at 7am at the International School. Everyone was very welcoming. Her class has 8 other kids. Four girls, four boys. She is the only American! Four of the kids are anglophone Africans, one boy from Holland, one … Continue reading →

I’m back for four months.  I think this will be a good trip.  Saw Peter Hochet on the plane; he was returning from Guinea.  He and colleagues in Labo Citoyennetes are doing a big project on land tenure regimes in … Continue reading →

On termine cette revue de presse au Sénégal. La Chine « déferle dans l’arachide » : c’est le titre choisi par Jeune Afrique dans son édition économique. Au port de Dakar, 53 000 tonnes d’oléagineux étaient en instance de départ … Continue reading →

From The New Yorker review of Justin Timberlake’s new album: Timberlake’s …  “Let the Groove Get In” is… powered by a synthetic kick drum and a sample of vocals and percussion from Burkina Faso…” Maybe because I don’t know a … Continue reading →