Ouestafnews – Le Sénégal a accueilli dans la soirée du mercredi 26 juin 2013 le président américain Barack Obama, arrivé dans la capitale sénégalaise en compagnie de son épouse Michelle et de ses deux enfants.  Cette visite constitue la première étape d’une tournée africaine qui devrait le mener à l’Est et au Sud du continent.  Accompagné d’une [...]

Books and magazines tell tragic stories of black men incarcerated in such alarming numbers that some critics have challenged and speculated about the intent of America’s criminal justice system. The challenges are frequently accompanied by dismal statistics documenting low reading achievement usually leads to high drop-out rates and speculation that the deck of opportunity is stacked against black men. It’s especially difficult for those raised in single parent homes that battle the burdens of poverty. [...]

The middle of Cristina Ortiz’s sophomore year, it hit her. Despair? Or maybe fear? Certainly a crisis of confidence. I can’t be an engineer. “I reached a point where I stopped believing in myself,” she said. Many other students like her in the first class of Kauffman Scholars — students from low-income households, many trying [...]

wheelchairs bought and sold
on street corners
like used cars
but
where do you find an apple
not impregnated by pesticides?![...]

My father liked them separate, one there,
One here (allá y aquí), as if aware
that words might cut in two his daughter’s heart
(el corazón) and lock the alien part
to what he was—his memory, his name
(su nombre)—with a key he could not claim.[...]

[…] California just voted on a ballot measure, called Proposition 30, which proposed to increase sales and income taxes to be allocated to public schools. An amazing 54 percent of Californians voted to pass the measure, but hold onto your seats, because Berkeley actually voted 90 percent approval of the tax hikes. As much as Johnson [...]

From China to Costa Rica, from Mali to Malaysia acclaimed singers and musicians, women and men, have come together to spread a message of unity and solidarity: We are “One Woman”.[...]

1. Ecoutez le texte audio de Mme Diakité à propos des manifestations d’étudiants à Dakar.
2. Consult the following Langaa book available from African Books Collective or Amazon: “University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa”

Fonio (Digitaria exilis) has been grown in West Africa for centuries. Long time reduced to a marginal cereal because of its small grains, fonio is currently experiencing resurgence due to taste and nutritional qualities recognized by its consumers. Recent research has helped mechanize several stages of processing to facilitate the promotion of fonio in local [...]

« Le fonio (Digitaria exilis) est cultivé en Afrique de l’Ouest depuis des siècles. Longtemps réduit à l’état de céréale marginale à cause de la petitesse de ses grains, le fonio connaît aujourd’hui un regain d’intérêt en raison des qualités gustatives et nutritionnelles que lui reconnaissent les consommateurs. Des recherches récentes ont permis de mécaniser plusieurs [...]