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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Fixer: The Taking Of Ajmal Naqshbandi
After teaching in the evening MBA program, I usually come home and decompress watching something. Over the last several weeks, I watched the over-the-top police drama Luther, with Idris Elba. It was pretty good for decompression candy. Last night though … Continue reading
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Teaching macroeconomics: The money multiplier
It is a staple of every macroeconomics textbook. Essential to any understanding of the money supply in a modern economy (that the banking system creates money). Here is an excellent blog post on the Indian money multiplier. Notice that India … Continue reading
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Crime in the Bay Area
They copied my San Jose graphs (here and here) to show that crime has also been declining in San Francisco. Because after all, I really am the first person ever to use the FBI crime statistics. Every time a city … Continue reading
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More on crime in California
From the FBI uniform crime reporting statistics, the levels and trends of violent and property crime for the five cities in California about 500,000 in population that are in the database. I was a little bit surprised to see them … Continue reading
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Timely reminder of controversies over money and inflation from Paul Krugman, just in time for my MBA macro class
Some background: On the eve of the Great Recession, many conservative pundits and commentators — and quite a few economists — had a worldview that combined faith in free markets with disdain for government. Such people were briefly rocked back … Continue reading
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Bitter Bread of Exile – Sir Edward Mutesa II
At the African Studies Association meetings last November, I picked up a copy of Bitter Bread of Exile – Sir Edward Mutesa II by A.B.K. Kasozi. It was not until the next day that I realized that the Kasozi writing … Continue reading
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Ambassador Mushingi delivers a clear message in Burkina Faso
Apparently this is what he said on 4th of July: « Au fil des années, nous avons clarifié ce que « Egalité » signifiait et formulé 27 Amendements à la Constitution. La plupart des amendements ont élargi les libertés de … Continue reading
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Crime trends and levels in San Jose
As the upcoming mayoral election comes up for San Jose, we have two candidates: Sam Liccardo and David Cortese. Crime and policing are, at this point, going to be at the center of the campaign. So I thought I should … Continue reading
I might start reading Stephen King… but first I have to finish more Shirley Jackson
So a librarian at Santa Clara University gave me a treat this long holiday weekend. In the “fiction browsing” section I discovered Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle from 1962, apparently her last published novel. It is … Continue reading
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#InstagrammingAfrica: The Narcissism of Global Voluntourism
How are you not narcissistic when criticizing your former narcissist self? Voluntourism organizations don’t have to advertise, because they can crowdsource. Photography—particularly the habit of taking and posting selfies with local children—is a central component of the voluntourism experience. Hashtags … Continue reading
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Lake Chad area resource conflicts
Lake Chad gets talked about a lot in the environmental discussions of the Sahel. I know little about the science. But a quick perusal of various articles by hydrologists suggests that human water management decisions (bad ones, naturally) have been … Continue reading
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Espen Stranger-Johannessen on promoting a reading culture in Uganda
Espen, who has been affiliated with the Uganda Community Library Association and Kitengesa Community Library, both supported by FAVL, has a new article in the IFLA Journal. It is based on his fieldwork in Caezaria Library in Uganda. It is … Continue reading
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Janet Yellen and Bubbles
Ms. Yellen stakes out her position in about as clear a language as you’ll see from a central banker: She believes that it would most likely be a bad idea to raise interest rates to fight financial excesses. Her focus, … Continue reading
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Must reading for Iraqis under siege
Victor Klemperer’s I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-45. He survives. The diary is gripping reading. He wrote practically every day and gave the pages to a trusted friend. At the end you get all the … Continue reading
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Sudan and BNP Paribas
I have not been following this case at all, but this NY Times story, all about Iran, has this one sentence about Sudan: BNP was also doing business with Sudan at a time that the nation was operating a genocidal … Continue reading
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Paramanga Yonli rallies the troops….
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How many deaths will result from marijuana legalization
My gut feeling is that nowhere close to the deaths and disability years of alcohol. Excessive alcohol use accounts for one in 10 deaths among working-age adults ages 20-64 years in the United States, according to a new report. Excessive … Continue reading
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Blattman and cash transfers and libraries and reading
Chris Blattman defends and promotes cash transfers. It’s a good, compelling oped piece. But I worry that as the juggernaut of “just give cash” gains steam, people will give less to support public goods. As you know, dear reader, I … Continue reading
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Powerful video on children working in gold mines, and the alternatives (for just a few dollars)
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