Category Archives: Burkina Faso

Fabrication des colliers à la bibliothèque de Koho #Burkina

Posted on March 22, 2023 by mkevane

Dans le cadre de ses activités d’animations dans les bibliothèques, l’animateur de l’ABVBF Boué Alidou a reçu le 11 mars 2023, 07 élèves du primaire pour une séance d’apprentissage de fabrication des colliers en papier. C’est une activité qui se … Continue reading →

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Séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Dohoun #Burkina

Posted on March 21, 2023 by mkevane

Lors de sa visite à la bibliothèque de Dohoun, le jeudi 02 mars 2023, l’animateur de ABVBF, Alidou BOUÉ, a organisé une séance de dessin au profit de plusieurs enfants. Pour la réalisation de cette tâche, il a été aidé … Continue reading →

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Séance d’activités à la bibliothèque de Humanitas

Posted on March 21, 2023 by mkevane

Dans le souci de promouvoir l’éducation en motivant les collectivités à davantage fréquenter la bibliothèque, le gérant de la bibliothèque de Humanitas s’évertue à organiser des activités au bénéfice des usagers. Ainsi, au cours du mois de mars, il a … Continue reading →

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Production de livres du au Centre Multimédia de Houndé (CMH) #Burkina

Posted on March 21, 2023 by mkevane

La production de livres au Centre Multimédia de Houndé (CMH) a repris son cours. En effet, à ce jour, c’est huit cents (800) copies de quatre (4) nouveaux titres qui ont été imprimées, à raison de deux cents (200) copies … Continue reading →

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Visite au Centre de lecture et d’animation culturelle de Boromo #Burkina

Posted on January 22, 2022 by mkevane

Dans le cadre de la coopération entre les bibliothèques appuyées par Amis des Bibliothèques de Villages du Burkina Faso et le centre national de lecture d’animation culturelle/CENALAC, le coordonnateur de ABVBF Sanou Dounko, a visité le 19 janvier 2022 le … Continue reading →

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Encadrement du responsable du centre multimédia de Houndé (CMH) sur les techniques de rédaction des livres pour enfants

Posted on June 27, 2021 by mkevane

Le centre multimédia de Houndé (CMH) dans la poursuite de ses objectifs de promouvoir les talents locaux à travers l’encadrement et la formation aux activités d’initiation aux outils informatique, encadrement en dessins et en écriture (création des livres pour enfants). … Continue reading →

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Should you be in favor of really big spending bill now, or not?

Posted on February 7, 2021 by mkevane

I think the answer is pretty simple: if you care that inequality in the United States has risen and that many, many people are being “left behind” then you should be in favor. The pundits, including many prominent economists who … Continue reading →

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Manifold:Space by Stephen Baxter, from 2001, did not age well

Posted on January 3, 2021 by mkevane

A big fat sprawling space opera taking place over several thousand years, the virtue is to indelibly imprint in a reader (especially maybe a younger reader) that the Fermi Paradox (where is the other intelligent life in the galaxy?) is … Continue reading →

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The Algebraist by Iain Banks

Posted on September 22, 2020 by mkevane

I read the sprawling science-fiction novel The Algebraist by Iain Banks some years ago. I got it as a gift for Christmas, had forgotten I had read it, started reading it, started to think it was familiar, couldn’t recall much. … Continue reading →

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s A View of Pale Hills

Posted on September 6, 2020 by mkevane

Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills was a tremendous read. The cover says “elliptical” and that was exactly right. It is very quiet, and not that much happens, but the juxtaposition of intense inner life with empty meaninglessness was… … Continue reading →

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Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt

Posted on June 5, 2020 by mkevane

Kim Stanley Robinson’s, The Years of Rice and Salt is an enjoyable big picture alt-history: what if Europeans had been wiped out by a virulent plague around 1200 AD or so (I was never clear about the exact timing). Of … Continue reading →

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I listened. The Republicans are not saying much. Rep. Sensenbrenner (R,WI) offers an oped in the New York Times

Posted on December 21, 2019 by mkevane

I posted this on Twitter and though I would have as coherent paragraph. A quick response to  Rep. Sensenbrenner (R,WI) oped. Sensenbrenner purports to explain why he voted against the articles of impeachment. I wanted to carefully review his argument. … Continue reading →

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Greatest song ever recorded, for its voice, and lilting but complex melody: Myan Myan by Coupé Cloué

Posted on December 14, 2019 by mkevane

One of the comments: “J’en ai les larmes qui coulent, je pense à mes parents, notamment à mon tendre et cher papa, toute mon enfance se résume dans ses chansons.” “Jean Gesner Henry (May 10, 1925 – January 29, 1998), … Continue reading →

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Blistering critique of MPP and President Roch Kaboré by opposition in #Burkina

Posted on November 3, 2019 by mkevane

Non content de réchauffer les projets de Blaise COMPAORE pour se les réattribuer, le Président KABORE se lance maintenant dans les inaugurations de morceaux de routes. Là où un Haut-commissaire ou un Gouverneur étaient suffisamment compétents pour inaugurer ces mini-infrastructures, … Continue reading →

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Affordable housing at about $200,000 a unit in San Jose?

Posted on October 22, 2019 by mkevane

I wish reporters would give  better sense of the financing and ownership details of these affordable housing projects. For example, from SJ Spotlight, an excellent new online newspaper serving the South Bay: The two proposals on the agenda are located … Continue reading →

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The dustup between Paul Paul Kéré and Rémi Dandjinou over the Burkinabè army’s preparedness

Posted on October 21, 2019 by mkevane

Totally relevant for those who call for former President Compaoré’s return to “help” deal with the insurgency. From the comments section: Cher Maître,Vous n’allez pas vous faire oublier un peu?Qu’est ce que le ministre a dit qui ne soit pas … Continue reading →

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Great reporting by Abdel Aziz Nabaloum about lack of public services in village of Koumna in Loroum #Burkina #lwili

Posted on October 21, 2019 by mkevane

Situé dans la commune de Ouindigui dans la province du Lorum, Koumna est un village enclavé. Cerné dans ses limites géographiques par les eaux, cette localité connaît un problème d’accès aux infrastructures sociales de base, à l’eau et à l’assainissement. … Continue reading →

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Looking forward to reading some new Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Posted on October 15, 2019 by mkevane

If you saw my comments in Mookse on the story by Joyce Carol Oates, then you can easily tell why I happened to google Bynum during a break. Chinese American writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is causing waves across the Atlantic … Continue reading →

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Adam and Allison Grant rewrite children’s books and much fiction: “Noble deed doers, you should first lecture the victims and help them help themselves more otherwise you are an enabler…”

Posted on October 6, 2019 by mkevane

OK I’m making fun a little, but their essay on The Giving Tree just rubs me the wrong way. Instead of marveling at the moral ambiguity of the book, the impulse is to “fix” it by explaining to you child … Continue reading →

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Great article in The New York Times about rural America and public services

Posted on October 6, 2019 by mkevane

I watched the fight unfold with a sense of sadness, anger and frustration. I started arguing. It didn’t work. The pay request was pulled from the Quorum Court’s agenda.I didn’t realize it at first, but the fight over the library … Continue reading →

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