The Sidwaya is a local paper that I tend to disdain. It is the official mouthpiece of the government here and as such, has little of interest to say. It's reasonably fair, but a bit boring. A copy only costs about 40 cents US, but even at that, they don’t sell many. Meanwhile, L’Evenement, at 500 fcfa (1$) sells like mad.
But amazingly, on Wednesday there was something REALLY interesting in the Sidwaya: a page and a half devoted to JP’s latest book! They printed a brilliant resumé of the main ideas- written by JP himself. There was also, as an added bonus, a huge picture of the author (taken by his wife out in their front yard last week.) Furthermore, it mentioned that the book would be officially “presented” at a conference on Friday afternoon.
JP was brilliant (are we surprised?). He presented some main points of his book about land tenure among the Winyé and then made some links to current land conflicts, like the one in Kounkounfouano that I recently blogged about.
Tomorrow I’ll publish the last and (I promise) final instalment of my adventures in Gourcy.
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