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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Steps Toward Democracy
Now that I’ve been here a while, perhaps some readers are beginning to wonder what I have to show for my time here. Well, for starters, I wrote a successful proposal for $9,000 to do a goat sharing project to encourage cross-ethnic reconciliation (based on our previous work with such projects, such as I described [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Tujijuke
There are words that qualify as interesting because, to translate them, it requires a phrase rather than just the equivalent word in the destination-language. Then there are words, such as the Kirundi word “kujijuka”, which is, in the first-person plural of the verb — “tujijuka,” the name chosen by a group of women living with [...]
