Category Archives: Burkina Faso

I had asked Salimata to use the library’s smartphone to post some casual shots of the “library in action” to Facebook.  I thought I would repost a couple.  I like the top photo of the group reading session.  Isn’t this … Continue reading →

Somehow I came across Percival Everett’s name, not sure exactly where.  I checked out Percival Everett by Virgil Russell from the library.  It is a very meta novel, a novel for people who really like to analyze novels… reading it … Continue reading →

A nice article in Oak North by Waringa Kamau and Kyle Ludowitz.  The main interviewee, Saré Bawaya Elisée, was FAVL’s national representative for a couple years.  And is a good friend!

Public procurement was always the place where everyone supposed the Compaoré clan was enriching itself. Now there is finally a case that might open the door to some jail time and real punishment. As far as I am aware, none … Continue reading →

When I was 16, I listened to Street Hassle obsessively.  On headphones of course because certain lines would have been very embarrassing if my siblings had heard them.  I was transported from my humdrum life as a sheltered upper class … Continue reading →

Way overdue.  Will eliminate possibility of changing two-term limit, and will eliminate clauses referring to Senate, which was never implemented, and that was clearly intended to be a mechnism for entrenching ex-regime loyalists and ex-regime legal political power. Conseil national … Continue reading →

I was listening to my local college radio station today and they played on their blues show “Feast of the Mau Mau” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. I suppose playing it now was intended, given Screamin’ Jay Hawkins career, as a … Continue reading →

Everyone who knows me knows I have strong philosophical objections to corporate movie-making (where a large committee is making decisions in order to maximize revenue).  Why waste my time when there are so many books to read, and auteur movies … Continue reading →

After enjoying Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, I was hoping A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, which is similarly pitched, would be a good read. Unfortunately it was not… basically written at the Lightning Thief-level, so fine for … Continue reading →

En attendant, il est évident que ce coup d’Etat mort-né a rendu un grand service aux autorités de la transition. Il faut le redire, elles se sont refait une virginité politique alors que visiblement leur popularité était mise à mal … Continue reading →

Chers amis, la liste du vocabulaire s’allonge de jour en jour. Un de mes amis américain a ajouté “to burkinate”= défendre farouchement ses droits fondamentaux. Bravo à tout le peuple burkinabè qui s’est levé contre les “forces du mal, ces … Continue reading →

One of the images that Burkinabè will never forget: Gilbert Diendéré meeting leaders on the red carpet at the airport.  The bully was allowed his face-saving gesture, knowing all the while he is diminished.

We can see only some things from among the many that are happening.  We cannot distinguish among a variety of possibilities. What discerning can we do from what we are seeing? In Texas hold ’em, you do not fold because … Continue reading →