Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation avec la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école B de Houndé
- Ghana librarians do a group reading session
- Organisation d’une séance de mots croisés et d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Appréciations des livres CMH par professeurs du CEG de Maro
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Animation de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque de Béréba, Burkina Faso
- Encouragement des élèves de l’école Sainte Thérèse de Houndé à la lecture
- Organisation d’une séance de lecture à voix haute à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Visite du coordonnateur et de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque Lumière pour enfants à Houndé
- Une sortie d’animation de la BMP à l’école E de Houndé
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Illiterate kids given sealed boxes with tablets figure out how to use, master, and hack them – Boing Boing
More idiotic hyperbole from the OLPC people, who want to take your money away from proper libraries with proper books. Ask yourself, if he has to outright lie about the product, why should anyone give any money to it? The … Continue reading
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Great video report by Koffi Amétépé on albinos in Burkina Faso
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Meet Don Francisco, Host of the TV Show ‘Sábado Gigante’
Otro articulo tan interesante, de mi hermana!!! This fall, the wildly popular Spanish-language television show Sábado Gigante Supersize Saturday—seen by millions of Hispanics around the world for two hours every Saturday afternoon—celebrates its 50th anniversary. This makes it, according to … Continue reading
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15 octobre 1987 analysis of interview of Sherif SY on Sankara’s death
Interrogé sur ses relations avec SANKARA et par la suite ce qu’ils se sont dit à leur dernière rencontre, il a déclaré ceci : « …si ma mémoire est bonne, je crois que la dernière fois que j’ai dû voir … Continue reading
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Stephen Pinker takes on “Silent Violence”
One of my PhD advisors at Berkeley was Michael Watts, whose wonderful, massive, and dense work Silent Violence was a great inspiration…. but like Pinker remember thinking that while I understood the argument– social structure led to outcomes, like death … Continue reading
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Moretti becomes the go-to geography pundit, and what does it mean for Burkina Faso?
I see Enrico Moretti’s name more and more, he’s on track to join the glitterati celebrity intellectuals… Here is is on the role of agglomeration in human capital The key to economic success? Geography – Global Public Square – CNN.com … Continue reading
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Even more evidence about how intuitively cooperative we are
We ask whether people are predisposed towards selfishness, behaving cooperatively only through active self-control; or whether they are intuitively cooperative, with reflection and prospective reasoning favouring ‘rational’ self-interest. To investigate this issue, we perform ten studies using economic games. We … Continue reading
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AIGA | Case Study: Neighborhoods and Shared Memories/Nuestros vecindarios y sus memorias
Mariano Desmaras was always “my friend’s little brother” but now here he is winning awards…. congratulations! And I see some inspiration for FAVL’s microbooks project here, as we shift into community history! “Neighborhoods and Shared Memories” (Nuestros vecindarios y sus … Continue reading
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No pity for disingenuous “no pity shit” aid op-ed
Publicity-hungry entrepreneurs have special advisors who sit in rooms all day cooking up catchy one-liners that will get them noticed, never mind the incoherence of whatever they have to say. The latest such is Magatte Wade, a Senegalese skin-care mogul-in-the-waiting … Continue reading
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The way the world is right now 2012
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Echos des bibliothèques au Burkina Faso
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Really? Do nothing? Bruce Whitehouse on Mali
Bruce Whitehouse concludes his overview, in London Review of Books. of what happened in Mali (pretty much the standard story), with this paragraph: What does Mali’s spectacular slide from celebrated democratic model to failed state augur for the rest of … Continue reading
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Sachs review of Acemoglu and Robinson
According to the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country’s political institutions. More specifically, as they explain in their new book, Why Nations Fail, it depends on the existence … Continue reading
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If I had a million dollars
I’d remake The Wild Thornberrys (the movie) and keep the exact same story except make the Thornberrys an African family, and Eliza an young African girl. It is one of the most perfect children’s movies, but why does the heroine … Continue reading
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My feeling exactly on The Marriage Plot
Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel you were supposed to like, and didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing? “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeff Eugenides, and “The Stranger’s Child,” by Alan … Continue reading
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U.S. Seeks to Step Up Africa Investment – NYTimes.com
But these companies need no introduction to the continent, which is home to 7 of the world’s 10 fastest growing economies. They are already here. Earlier this year, Walmart finalized a deal worth more than $2 billion to acquire 51 … Continue reading
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Law Librarian Blog: Sixth Circuit Makes Faculty Tenure Almost Meaningless
When is tenure not tenure? The answer according to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is that the grant of tenure is defined by the terms of the employment contract rather than a philosophical understanding of tenure. The Cooley law … Continue reading
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Eko India… financial services for the poor… will they compete with M-Pesa?
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Michael Kevane 