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 [...]

Click on the photo / Cliquez sur la photo

SESSION 3 : Développent de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique et création d’un espace africain de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.
Cette session présidée par le Professeur Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye, Président de l’ANSTS s’est déroulée sous la forme d’une table ronde, et a enregistré les interventions de plusieurs personnalités.

One what? A book! Leave one where? In a little street box library, in Brooklyn, New York. But only one that is “imminently readable.” Meaning these new libraries are not places to “dump” unwanted textbooks, for example. Rather, they’re places where readers, without even knowing one another, share treasures with one another. I took a book [...]