May 28, 2015
I have often read that Africa is the forgotten continent, but I go to bed every night convinced that it’s anything but. How else can you explain that a group of children no more than 4 years old, shoeless and barely clothed with “loincloths” play with fire, metal and...
Apr 13, 2015
This is my recount of my latest trip. It seems to me it merits the title “Burkina is saved!” Because among so many good things we saw, the most important is that Burkina Faso can serve as an example to the world of how an oppressed nation is capable of rebelling and...
Jan 30, 2015
This is a very special post, as special as it is the one who writes it, Leopoldo Abadía, a great person, as his wife Elena. Both have seen me to grow since I was little. I was lucky to eat with them a few days ago and from this lunch, between laugh and laugh because...
Dec 23, 2014
Thanks!!! To all Rimkieta’s friends who make possible the Foundations’ projects, we wish you Merry Christmas’s and a happy 2015, during which we will keep on compromised with our aims and illusions.
Dec 1, 2014
Just a few days ago the curfew was lifted. It doesn’t make much difference to my daily routine, but it’s a sign of the country getting back to normalcy. I mentioned in my last post “Six Days to Social and political change in Burkina” how impressive it is to see...
Nov 3, 2014
We could see it coming; everything pointed at what was to come. Yet it was more surprising than what I had imagined. On Tuesday, October 21, in a Special Council of Ministers, the Government considered a bill to modify article 37 of the Constitution in order to allow...
