Our small meeting room in Hounde is getting its money's worth (rent is $15 per month). And that is our newest innovation... the cushioned bench, with pesticide -laden local cotton...
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A site devoted to thoughts about books, reading, and libraries relevant to Africa mostly by Michael Kevane, co-Director of Friends of African Village Libraries, a small 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to helping village and small community libraries in Africa. I am also an economist at Santa Clara University. Other frequent contributors are Kate Parry, FAVL-East Africa director, and Anne-Reed Angino, FAVL networker extraordinaire! For more information see the FAVL website, http://www.favl.org
Who we are
Links to library support associations affiliated with FAVL
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- It is hot in the libraries
- Sumbrungu Women's Center
- Elliot and Sukie in Dohoun library
- More reading
- Read-a-thon in Vermont
- More second goat race
- Newspapers are life in a rural village
- Second goat race
- Another watercolor from Elisee…
- Lucas and Darius in Sumbrungu and the Women's Center
- The first goat race
- Daisy Miller
- A few more photos from Dohoun
- Now that we have the piercing machine, what next?
- Buy a book, help FAVL
- Librarians meet again
- The machine we did buy....
- Elliot in house in Ouagadougou
- Books in Burkina Faso
- Anthropology of an American Girl
- Apocalyptic reading
- What were Elliot and Sukie doing in Dohoun?
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- making books (17)
- Non-African novels (16)
- understanding africa (15)
- reading and the brain (8)
- reflections on literacy (8)
- technology for literacy? (7)
- africa photo books (6)
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- schooling in Africa (4)
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1 comment:
Happy Birthday Michael ... belatedly!
We love your blog! :) SF & GR
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