Welcome to my personal website. Here you will find lots of information about my key interests: Sudan, Burkina Faso, libraries for children in rural areas of Africa, and teaching development economics to my favorite group of people- students at Santa Clara University. You can keep up with me on my blog and the FAVL blog where I post about libraries and reading in Africa. Please also visit the website of Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL) the small non-profit that myself and some colleagues started and which now supports village libraries in four countries, and UnderstandingSudan.org, a project to help teachers, researchers and activists be more effective in influencing the course of events in Sudan.
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Recent Posts
- AI as an existential threat – Kevane preliminary draft
- “What can it do?” A living list of computational problems that deep learning/AI/neural nets can or seems likely to “do” (at varying cost and efficacy)
- Reading August-September 2025
- The typical popular sci-fi version of AI posing an existential risk?
- AI productivity growth and “the economy”
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Résumé des évaluations des bibliothèques de Koho, Dohoun et Dimikuy
- Une élève découvre la bibliothèque communautaire de Boni
- Reading locally produced books… very popular in Burkina Faso
- Animation d’une séance de lecture à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Photo from Dohoun library in Burkina Faso
- Préparatifs de l’équipe de ABVBF pour la FILO 2025
- Nyariga Community Library daily activities: The new library in Upper East, Ghana, is up and running!
- Night activities at Gowrie-Kunkua Community Library, Ghana
- Night reading and studying at Sumbrungu Community Library
- Une semaine à la bibliothèque de Koho