Friends of African Village Libraries

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

Friday, August 21, 2009

FAVL Blog has Moved!

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We're moving! The FAVL blog is moving to a new blog that is more integrated with our new website, which offers a cleaner presentation ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Does your president pay his taxes?

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Wonderful 'direct talk" from writer Alain Mabanckou ... Avril 2009 : tous les américains ont pu lire la feuille de déclaration des ...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Let's digress... Economics and modeling

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Lee over at RovingBandit had some discussion of the value of economists making assumptions that people are rational and self-interested (as...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

African crime literature... calling Ro Harris!

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Rosemary Harris , a major force behind Chalula community library in Tanzania, is also a mystery novel writer ... she would have enjoyed this...

White Teeth, by Okot p'Bitek

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This short novel from 1953 is very poignant, and translated in 1988 from Acoli it reads well. The story is a commonplace- the young man wan...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Promoting a reading culture in Kenya

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Nice blog posting by Konrad Glogowski: ...While I agree that it is challenging to encourage students to use English outside of school where ...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Sticker supply boost thanks to Debbie Tanzer's book, Do One Nice Thing

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FAVL has received many lovely stickers for our child readers upon a recommendation contained in Debbie Tanzer's book, Do One Nice Thing ...

Overachieving kids are the same the world over, even in Darfur refugee camps!

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He sure could use a library, but unfortunately at this time FAVL has no plans to expand to Darfur refugee camps, though we would certainly l...
Monday, August 10, 2009

More photos from Summer reading camp in Bereba village... photo: Madelyn Bagby

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Sunday, August 09, 2009

Ding dong the 990's done...

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Every small non-profit dreads the day of the IRS form 990... and last May we dreaded so much we just applied for automatic extension. yeste...
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Saturday, August 08, 2009

FORGE library for refugees in Zambia

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A long time ago... FAVL made a financial contribution to help this library get established...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

"learn earn return" or "concern learn return" or "earn learn return"

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As a college professor, students are always engaging me in discussions about what the better strategy is. Especially the ones going to law ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Why read when you can twitter?

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A hilarious (to me) posting from ugandan insomniac on "what if" Museveni were twittering ... Had a rough nite. Mbwenu journalists...

Who Controls African Literature?

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FAVL friend Chelby Daigle send us this editorial by Tolu Ogunlesi: LAGOS: The literary world is once again shining a spotlight on Africa. Th...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Ricky Alexander report from Chalula library

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The food situation is more than satisfactory. Henry is coordinating things on that front for me in the village as Aaron is busy with some lo...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Three Cups of Tea... over coffee

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I spent the last four days up in the Sierras at San Jose Family Camp (our city's socialized but market-priced camp site), blissfully rea...
Sunday, August 02, 2009

Civic engagements...

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SCU student Louise O'Rourke will be spending the Fall in Burkina on the Santa Clara University study abroad program Reading West Africa,...

Summer reading camp in Bereba village... photo: Madelyn Bagby

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

What is development studies good for?

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Most people who come to the topic of development studies do so because they are interested in a particular region or problem. They realize ...

Fille des crocodiles Auteur : Marie-Florence Ehret

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From publisher Ricochet-jeunes ... Fanta vit dans un village du Burkina-Faso avec sa grand-mère Mâ, tandis que sa mère Delphine garde des en...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Ethics of libraries... are people opposed to reading?

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Violence in northern Nigeria has left hundreds dead, and some stories suggest that a militant Islamic group is largely responsible, having r...

Reading in the village... photo Madelyn Bagby

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Monday, July 27, 2009

Community Libraries in Pakistan

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One of my colleague's here at Ashoka sent me a profile of an Ashoka fellow in Pakistan that she thought I would be interested in. His n...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

What should we do...

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Technology could really help with improving one of the most important cognitive skills of the human brain, which is how to process the writt...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The continuing saga of the One Laptop per Child....

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Just send a $250 donation to FAVL, please... we'll get it into libraries straightaway... Courtesy of Michele ODI blogger, in Ghana : Fiv...

Two children's books from T. Obinkaram Echewa

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These stories are very nice, as are the illustration. I heartily recommend! The illustrations in The Ancestor Tree are by Christy Hale . ...

African langugage books online....

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Sent in by Kim Dionne : More Swahili, Kikuyu, Dholuo and other African Languages in Google Books via Official Google Africa Blog by Julie o...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Inspiring a reading culture in Burkina Faso..

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While sorting through Ashoka Fellows involved in rural development today at work, I happened upon Dieudonné Par, an Ashoka Fellow, passiona...
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From Ugandan Insomniac ... (HT Kim Dionne ) If you are a fan of Chimamanda Ngonzi Adichie’s books, you have to download the BBC World Book ...

Wow... what a photo! I love it... by Amy Reggio

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