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
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I'm nervous
The new library in Boni, Burkina Faso, is going to open on Monday. The U.S. ambassador is going to come. Donkoui and Dounko and Elisee are handling all of the preparations. I am so not involved. The team has done this before (in Dohoun and Karaba) but never under real pressure to get it right, and juggle a hundred details: Where will the guests sit? Who will speak first? What will protocol be? Who will paint signs on the library? Will they buy the children's tables and chairs? Will the girls and boys latrines be finished and clearly marked?
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