He spent restless nights mourning our throwaway culture until he hit upon an idea he was convinced had potential. He wanted to put together a library in Ghana with discarded books from Western.
Seven years later, Agyeman is set to officially open a 50,000-book public library in his hometown of Kumasi in central Ghana next month.
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
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Please tell me whether this ever happened... a public library in Kumasi
The full story from April 2007 is here... there seems to be nothing online since then...
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