Category Archives: Politics

Lots of publicity, quick public health action, good treatment… so the Guinean is cured and none of his contacts got infected…. supposedly.  Reassuring. Il est vrai que pour l’instant, la campagne active de prévention menée par les autorités sénégalaises a … Continue reading →

She seems to be be pretty well, although last week when she got it was hell for her and my father.  It’s big news here is Puerto Rico with estimates of 20,000 cases…. If the deaths are confirmed to be … Continue reading →

Of course, could be a Machiavellian scheme to destabilize the MPP. But if someone does something deliberately to destabilize you, surely you can emerge un-destabilized?  Politics is the great game indeed. Au Burkina Faso, le parti au pouvoir, le CDP … Continue reading →

Libraries creating reading material in bf presentation v2 from Friends of African Village Libraries

So the workshop I am presenting my paper at in Paris at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France is on encouraging youth reading.  Kate DiCamillo apparently is going to be at the session for an interview.  Now, I’ll be honest and say that … Continue reading →

An extract… In the afternoon I went to the Africa section panel on libraries in Africa. Some very interesting talks. For me the presenters on francophone Africa were of course of most interest. Eliane Lallemand from Lire en Afrique, who … Continue reading →

These issues are occasionally very complex, and remind on of the Rosenberg case in Guatemala.  The killing of Norbert Zongo and his companions in 1998 was the last clear political killing in the country.  Newton Ahmed Barry suggests the very … Continue reading →

At first, McFaul took the attack personally, not yet realizing that he was, for Putin and official Moscow, a mere foil. “The shit that Leontiev put out on me—this haunted me for the rest of my time in Russia. I … Continue reading →

Heard this on Air France for a couple years it seems, never knew the band. Beautiful song. They’ve broken up unfortunately.

Newspaperman Newton Ahmed Barry gets his home and office broken into… My full sympathies, but may I also suggest “the cloud”? Google Drive, Dropbox…. good ways to store documents beyond the reach of thugs. Ils ont coupé une fenêtre pour … Continue reading →

The authors conclude that the top PhD programs are serving their students ill, and I won’t necessarily argue with that. Academia is changing, and the path to tenure at a decent university seems more fraught with hard work and long … Continue reading →

OK as I am reading the paper, here is an important sentence (“Goes to intent, your honor”): The result has been a movement toward Iceland’s becoming an international banking center (although on a small scale because the country is, after … Continue reading →

When a researcher estimates the parameters of a regression function using information on all 50 states in the United States, or information on all visits to a website, what is the interpretation of the standard errors? Researchers typically report standard … Continue reading →

Over the weekend I watched the Iranian movie A Separation. I was talking with an Iranian colleague about how much despair there is in the movie… a man and his daughter deal with the consequences of the wife separating, as … Continue reading →