Author Archives: mkevane

Most of the action is within the CDP, as local factions vie for power.  I wish I had time to do quantitative analysis on voting patterns and local commune efficacy. Conformément à la directive du Ministère de l’administration territoriale et … Continue reading →

I’m not saying our retreat leaders in high school couldn’t have benefited a little (a lot?) from this hard-won humility…. but boy I sure would have appreciated it: When I was a third-grade student in the 1960s, my school organized … Continue reading →

Aux collectivités locales, il militera pour la « voie de l’élargissement des libertés locales portées par le processus de décentralisation » afin de mieux prendre en compte « les cultures et les savoirs locaux afin de donner un visage africain … Continue reading →

Le 18 septembre 1989, il déjoue une tentative de coup d’État qui – selon la version officielle – aurait été fomentée par Lingani et Zongo, ses deux vieux compagnons d’armes. Lingani lui aurait fait part de leur plan et Diendéré … Continue reading →

West African tradition has it that Presidents (and every chef) has to present the veoux and sum up the year etc.  So Blaise did that, and I thought it would be a good occasion to see what he and his … Continue reading →

Somewhere in the White House people use this phrase every day.  I heard it recently from a former White House staffer, and it stuck, and for good reason: a Google search comes up completely empty.  This blog entry should help … Continue reading →

Religious people have a hard time explaining what part of religion isn’t… dumb.  In the exact same way non-religious people have a hard time explaining why they…. keep at it… We’re dumb, OK?  And according to my etymology search, that … Continue reading →

Somewhat disappointing that he appears unprepared (he doesn’t seem to know that Burkina already has a 10% ownership stake in industrial mines according to the mining code).  And he seems not to have read the EITI reports (which show an … Continue reading →

Diabré is a former deputy of the National Assembly in the 1990s, a Minister of Finance, he then served a time at UNDP, and also the French nuclear group Areva.  He was a fellow for a year at Harvard (where … Continue reading →

Perusing the catalog of a children’s publisher Kalimat in Emirates, suddenly realized that almost none of the women and girls depicted were wearing head scarves.  Says something about what professional women want their children to think is “normal”: no head … Continue reading →

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