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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Meanwhile, we were having lunch with kids at Dankan
Small riots in Bobo-Dioulasso as protest march may or may not have gone off course. Après l’allocution de Souleymane Pîga Yaméogo, le mercure monte d’un cran. Il faut dire qu’avec son aisance et sa capacité à titiller les consciences, le … Continue reading
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Albert Ouédraogo ex Minister of Human Rights and Promotion of Civicness
Last night at a small dinner to start planning for what will hopefully be a 75th anniversary celebration/conference on Dim Delobsom (he died July 13 1940) I met Albert Ouédraogo. He’s a university professor who was president of the civil … Continue reading
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Short visit to Bereba
Leslie, kids and I went down to Bereba (in Tuy province, southwestern Burkina Faso). What did we notice? Tuy (and many other regions) having an exceptionally good rainy season. Planting was early, rains have been steady and substantial, so far … Continue reading
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I beg to differ on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road…
This entire analysis of what to “learn” from Google Ngram strickes me as deeply misguided… making much out of change in incidence of words over time with no consideration for the self-selection of books published in what was an industry. … Continue reading
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Sit-in du SYNATIC: La réaction de la Rédaction RTB télé
Des agents du ministère de la communication, à l’appel du Syndicat autonome de l’information et de la culture annoncent qu’ils observeront un sit-in le mardi 16 juillet pour protester contre disent-ils « l’immixtion du ministère de la communication dans le … Continue reading
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Jean-Pierre Béjot rips Zéphirin Diabré
A little harsh, but I know where he is coming from. Diabré is an economist, worked with AREVA, he knows how to put together a real platform. Here’s some of the things he could say he would do that would … Continue reading
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Reading tea leaves in Ouagadougou : François Compaoré mentions article 37…
Finalement c’est sur les antennes d’une télévision privée qu’il s’est exprimé sur le sujet. L’on retiendra de ses propos qu’un article de la constitution ne saurait restreindre le choix des burkinabè, en les privant de l’opportunité d’accorder leur confiance à … Continue reading
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Zéphirin Diabré profil de Jean-Pierre Bejot
Je trouve son analyse trop artificiel… faites-un interview toi-meme au lieu de faire commentaire sur ce qu’il aurait pu dire… Anticipation ou incompréhension ? Si Blaise annonçait, tout de go, qu’il entendait changer l’article 37, ceux des Burkinabè qui veulent … Continue reading
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Manega Museum on Google Map
Maitre Pacere built this giant map of Africa on the left that you can see from the air…
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Visit to Musée de Manéga in Burkina Faso
We had a nice drive out to the museum of Manega, about 45 minutes. Paul Sawadogo (Maitre Pacéré‘s nephew) showed us around. Some very interesting artifacts. I enjoyed the room with old clothes from Tensoba Naba. Very impressive Nyoyonse tombstones.
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Nice profile of Assimi Kouanda by Jean-Pierre Bejot
Assimi Kouanda était en Haute-Volta quand la « Révolution » s’est emparée du pouvoir. Il n’a pas encore trente ans. Il va s’investir pleinement dans ce moment d’histoire particulièrement dense. Au lendemain de l’adoption 3 octobre 1983 du fameux « … Continue reading
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Projet d’ouverture d’une mine d’or a Hounde
La société minière Endeavour/Avion Gold a tenu une rencontre d’information le vendredi 7 juin 2013 à Houndé, sous la présidence du ministre de l’Environnement et du développement durable, Salifou Ouédraogo. L’étude d’impact environnemental et social du projet d’installation de la … Continue reading
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L’orpaillage met en péril les plaines aménagées à Houndé
Les plaines aménagées de Bouendé et de Koho dans la commune de Houndé sont menacées d’ensablement à cause de l’orpaillage artisanal. Le cours d’eau qui permet d’irriguer ces deux plaines risque de disparaître si rien n’est fait d’ici là. En … Continue reading
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Nice reflection on African literature
E.C Osondu’s Waiting, a short story published in Guernica, was awarded the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing. The story is about young African refugees waiting to be adopted by white westerners. A Caine Prize judge complimented the story for … Continue reading
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Panorama des littératures francophones d’Afrique
Du Maghreb à l’Afrique du Sud et du Sénégal à Djibouti, de Léopold Sédar Senghor aux contemporains – Ahmadou Kourouma, Yasmina Khadra, Emmanuel Dongala et bien d’autres –, le Panorama des littératures francophones d’Afrique parcourt la littérature écrite en français … Continue reading
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Librarie universitaire
I dropped off copies of our book Promotion de la Lecture au Burkina Faso at the Librarie universitaire… A nice spot on the center of campus. Mostly just textbooks, but a small section with novels… including a Mongo Beti novel … Continue reading
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Religion and politics in Burkina Faso
An old colleague Magloire Somé and I agreed to meet for dinner, after a panel he was on for the American Political Science Association “study tour”of Burkina Faso…. so I went to the panel. It looked like it might be … Continue reading
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Flash points ahead…. marches planned for Ouagadougou
The CDP is planning a march this Saturday and opposition talking of counter-march… responses to last Saturday’s march against the Senate. Opposition finally found a nice wedge issue… average person has hard time agreeing with fairly lame justifications for Senate, … Continue reading
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Remorse… five variations
Not remorse over what I’ve been reading/viewing lately (with one exception, you guess), but rather, sometimes you find the same theme in very different materials… a straight flush this time, actually. To Have and To Have Not. Found it on … Continue reading
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