Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Daytime session at Sherigu Community Library
- La deuxième journée des activités de café littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Échanges avec la nouvelle gérante de la bibliothèque de Koho
- Reprise des activités de la bibliothèque mobile Pénélope
- Sortie de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse
- Bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux de la lecture à Niankorodougou
- Bibliothèque communautaire de Zimtenga ! Les livres attendent patiemment le retour des communautés
- Bilan des activités du mois d’août de la bibliothèque de Bougounam
- Bilan des premières journées du café littéraire
- Nyariga community library, daytime activities
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Burkina Faso planned borrowing ($260 million): energy, agriculture, road in the east, and general budget support
From an article from Ecofin: Rosine Coulibaly, the Burkinabe minister of economy, has signed last Monday five financing agreements valued at CFA131 billion with technical and financial partners. These monies will be injected in the National Economic and Social Development … Continue reading
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Striking secondary school teachers in Burkina Faso are not grading… students may have to repeat a year
Au Burkina Faso, les élèves ont manifesté dans plusieurs villes du pays pour exiger des évaluations. Depuis des semaines, les enseignants ont déposé leurs stylos en signe de protestation, leurs revendications n’ayant pas été satisfaites.Dans plusieurs régions du Burkina Faso, … Continue reading
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From the IFLA 2017 Trend Report for libraries around the world
We need ubiquitous individual Internet connectivity – but while we work on that problem we need to guarantee that libraries – all of them, every single one – can provide Internet access to those who visit them, so even those … Continue reading
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Great op-ed by my colleague Nancy Unger on tiny houses
The homeless and their advocates envision tiny houses as a practical solution to soaring housing costs. Environmental activists tout them for encouraging a minimalist, non-wasteful lifestyle and for being far more sustainable than recreational vehicles. Tiny houses have also fired … Continue reading
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Recent reading: Fantasy science-fiction, and historical fiction
For recent leisure reading lately I read four novels/novellas/collections/YA. China Miéville, The Census Taker. While I did not enjoy the novella, it was like a good workout, following along with an excellent writer a concept, “What would a novel be … Continue reading
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Every Day by David Levithan
I occasionally read young adult fiction, sometimes because my kids are reading something, sometimes because I like to imagine what such fiction would be like for French West African readers. I finished Every Day by David Levithan over a couple … Continue reading
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Recent activity by Salimata Korbeogo visiting libraries in northern Burkina Faso for FAVL
Le lundi 06/11/2017 la sortie fut dans la commune de Sabce. Elle avait pour objectif, la vérification des outils de gestion et la récupération des livres en retard, nous avons pu récupérer ensemble une dizaine. Le mardi 07/11/2017 la visite … Continue reading
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Data analysis of Literature
Nice New York Times article by Jennifer Schluessler. Data analysis of texts is fun and informative. But “close reading” will always remain the primary tool for discussing and interpreting a literary text. The attention to particular phrasing and using novel … Continue reading
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Compromise and the Civil War: Rejecting the euphemism of John Kelly
Nobody has to be a professional or even amateur historian to understand the import of General John Kelly’s words (below), stated in his capacity as Chief of Staff of the President of the United States, in a formal public interview, … Continue reading
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Ioannidis et al. on low bias and publication bias in Economics the “con” game is still being played loud and even proud
If we adopt the conventional 5% level of statistical significance and 80% power level, as well, then the ‘true effect’ will need to be 2.8 standard errors from zero to discriminate it from zero. The value of 2.8 is the … Continue reading
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Quantifying effects of rent control in San Francisco… very large redistibrution and inefficiency
It almost seems like the uncontrolled landlords are quite content to keep rent control in place: their rents go up substantially. In this paper, we exploit quasi-experimental variation in the assignment of rent con-trol in San Francisco to study its … Continue reading
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Mercury News weighs in on quiet attempt of Santa Clara County to take over Housing Authority
The Santa Clara County Housing Authority needs a shakeup. Dealing with federal rental vouchers and other programs for low-income residents, the authority’s appointed governing board is autonomous from both the county and the city of San Jose. The joint authority … Continue reading
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Statues of important historical figures (so far all men) being made Burkina Faso
A nice initiative by the Minister of Culture Tahirou Barry. Le circuit inaugural s’est refermé à Dori avec le baptême du monument de Hama Arba Diallo, figure emblématique de l’opposition burkinabè. « Arba Diallo est une figure emblématique de notre … Continue reading
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Traditional chiefs appropriated local structures of the Sankara “revolution” Burkina Faso… nice article
La résistance des pouvoirs coutumiers s’est faite par la recherche permanente du contrôle des structures populaires. Dans ce modus operandi, les institutions coutumières s’appuyèrent sur les liens familiaux et lignagers afin d’investir les structures populaires. Les chefs traditionnels ont su … Continue reading
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Upcoming colloquim on leagacy of Thomas Sankara
Les 26 et 27 octobre 2017, l’Université Ouaga1 Pr Joseph Ki-Zerbo abritera un colloque pour marquer le 30e anniversaire de l’assassinat du Président Thomas Sankara (15 octobre 1987). L’objectif étant de permette aux acteurs politiques, scientifiques et de la société … Continue reading
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Stockton basic income: Of all the “experiments” to run in the world, this one is probably idiotic in the sense that social science will learn nothing of value from it
Maybe 100 people. Likely currently unemployed and poor. So we call that means-tested welfare, not a universal basic income. And the control group sure won’t have any response bias, for sure. Tubbs says he hopes the experiment will run at … Continue reading
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New documentary on koglweogo in Burkina Faso. Rough justice and torture.
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Documentary on RTB on koglweogo of Kaibo in Centre-sud
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Some notes on criminal justice reform in the U.S.
Vox’s German Lopez reviews Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, by John Pfaff. Prison population growing because violent offenders being incarcerated at state and local level, not Federal. Pfaff: “In reality, only … Continue reading
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Roadblocks for Project Loon delivering Internet over Puerto Rico
Seems like a lot of technical glitches still have to be worked out. See what happens next month! La esperanza de que los globos de Project Loon pudieran conectar a Puerto Rico tan pronto como esta semana -como se había … Continue reading
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