Reading a few dozen pages every day of Los Cuatro Viajes Del Almirante Y Su Testamento: Cristóbal Colón. Lots of Leste, noreste, sudoeste, but in between the thrilling story of a about 90 sailors spending months at sea, then trying to interpret what they found, learning rudiments of Taino language while kidnapping people… and the reader knowing that millions will die because of what Colón unleashes… The one thing that so far really sticks with me: Colón over and over again writes, “these people don’t seem to have any weapons at all…”
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Organisation de deux activités à la bibliothèque de Dohoun
- Séance de jeudi récréatif à la bibliothèque communale de Karaba
- Mise à jour des ordinateurs du Centre Multimédia de Houndé
- Séance de lecture à haute voix à l’école de Lokihoun
- Reading FAVL-produced books in Koho library, Burkina Faso!
- Librarian meeting in Sumbrungu, Ghana
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Don de jeu de scrabble au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba
- Immersion à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho
- Organisation d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Koumbia