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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Dicko Fils Feat Floby – Anani Na – Burkina Faso #lwili
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Bikes for girls really good, laptops for kids “meh”: latest economic development research in AEJ-Applied
From American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Vol. 9 No. 3 July 2017 (11) Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarrarán, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severín This paper presents results … Continue reading
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Puerto Rico fiscal board to meet Friday in San Juan – Caribbean Business
Puerto Rico’s fiscal control board will hold its eighth public meeting Friday, June 30, in the Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel in San Juan, a spokesman for the board confirmed to Caribbean Business. During the meeting, the panel is expected to … Continue reading
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Puerto Rico bankruptcy rolls along
Puerto Rico, the biggest government in the U.S. to ever go bankrupt, will argue this week that it shouldn’t be treated like a broke business during the proceedings: Its residents, not creditors, should come first.Government lawyers will argue with bondholders … Continue reading
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Habibou Sawadogo – Booyé Doaga – Burkina Faso #lwili
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Andreas Eschbach, Lord of All Things
Well, it is too long. But Andreas Eschbach’s science fiction novel, Lord of All Things, is nevertheless a good read. The basic premise is pretty standard: What if someone could discover a technology that would end the need for technology. … Continue reading
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Serpentine pavilion 2017 by Francis Kéré’s
He came up with the idea of making an architectural version of a big tree in Gando, where people could gather in its perforated shade. Its structure is a festival of triangles, with curved walls beneath the orange-ish roof in … Continue reading
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Light sci-fi viewing on Netflix: The ARQ
I enjoyed it. A time-loop movie that is fairly clever about the loop and how to end the film.
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Nina Simone in Liberia by Katherina Grace Thomas in Guernica
It was a language that Simone spoke fluently. She was forty-one when she first landed at Robertsfield International Airport, her twelve-year-old daughter Lisa in tow, their belongings—clothes, books, records—packed into the belly of a Pan Am jet. Six years had … Continue reading
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Gyimah Gariba, illustrator from Ghana
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Mama, let your babies grow up listening to Kofi Kinaata… and get some empathy
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Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be fraternity brothers…
Full story in NYT. And for what? So he could do the same to other pledges in future years? A night that began with laughs and elaborate handshakes quickly devolved into dangerous drunkenness. The pledges were forced to participate in … Continue reading
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DCE William Baah now basically being blamed for death of Captain Mahama
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Past Life (film) by Avi Nesher
Went with S. to see this Israeli movie. Quite a good drama (OK verging on melodrama). But since it is about holocaust survivors and their secrets, the melodramatic is actually real. Some really awful things happened. The film is self-conscious … Continue reading
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Science fiction illuminating key ideas in social science: Two examples
I was reading The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach, and realized is is a good example of the concept of persistence in economic development. In this case, the emperor sets thousands of worlds on a persistent path of economic activity … Continue reading
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I bet the framers of the Federal and Puerto Rico constitutions had clear, original intents on the issue of Cofina vs. general obligation bonds
The dispute between COFINA bondholders and Puerto Rico’s general obligation bondholders took a new turn Wednesday, as the former parties asked the federal judge overseeing the commonwealth’s restructuring to let Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court determine once and for all whether … Continue reading
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Burkina Faso Travel Warning
The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Burkina Faso, and recommends they avoid travel to the northern part of the Sahel region, and exercise caution in the rest of Burkina Faso, due to continuing … Continue reading
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Oil discoveries did not change female labor force participation in southwest U.S.
Am teaching the paper by Michael Ross on oil, Islam and women. Here is a nice paper by Stephan Maurer and Andrei Victor Potlogea that addresses the question with far better data and methods. Fueling the Gender Gap? Oil and … Continue reading
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