Speech on the Ivorian crisis for the FASV (June 18, 2011, Embassy of Côte d’Ivoire in France) Excellency Ambassador, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends of the Saint Viateur Fund, I do not think I am in the best position to talk about the long crisis that Côte d’Ivoire is going through in general, since everyone here...
Month: November 2020
Reading Note: From the Avenue to the Chateau-Rouge Metro, Chronicles of the World Below
Bitter News from “Eternally Developing” Places, by Jean-Pierre Listre François-Xavier Akono, a Cameroonian Jesuit priest, gives us a series of bittersweet chronicles of trying realities, around little people whose way out one day is not very clear. First of all his style: he writes in small incisive sentences, sometimes “poetic” but precise, never practicing melodramatic...