Stephen Davies

I am a children's author writing picture books, chapter books and teen novels. My books are set in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, on the edge of the Sahara Desert. I have lived in Africa for more than ten years, working with World Horizons amongst Fulani cattle herders. Welcome to my site.

Tag: Burkina Faso

A Fulani Christmas message

by Stephen Davies

At the radio studio this week we have been recording and producing our Christmas and New Year programmes for broadcast all over Burkina Faso. Pastor Bandé Eli came up from Ouagadougou to preach a Christmas message. I always get a thrill from hearing Fulani shepherds in twenty-first century Burkina Faso recounting the story of Judean [...]

Published: December 19, 2011 | Filed Under: Spirituality | Tags: : : : : :

Dubious priorities? Burkina Faso marks a disastrous harvest by purchasing three new war planes.

by Stephen Davies

My neighbours in Djibo, and people all over Burkina Faso, are talking about their government’s recent purchase of three warplanes at a cost of 10 million dollars each. It’s bad timing, at best. Harvests in Djibo have been miserable this year, due to a poor rainy season (July – September) and a massive invasion of [...]

Published: November 1, 2011 | Filed Under: Social Justice | Tags: : : : : : :

Reading books on public transport – two views

by Stephen Davies

So I came across this blog today via @inspirationbits: People Reading Books in Public Places Here in Burkina Faso I hardly ever see someone reading a book in a public place. There is a great discussion in JM Coetzee’s novel Elizabeth Costello about why you seldom see people in Africa reading on buses. It’s not [...]

Published: September 14, 2011 | Filed Under: FILO 2010, YA books | Tags: : : : : :

Is Gaddafi in Burkina Faso?

by Stephen Davies

. I was buying a chicken at the market the other day and got into an argument about Gaddafi. ‘Why did you start bombing him?’ asked a young man sitting near the chicken stall. The ‘you’ took me aback a bit. ‘Gaddafi is not perfect,’ continued the man, ‘but you have no right to attack [...]

Published: September 10, 2011 | Filed Under: Gaddafi Burkina Faso | Tags: : : : : : : : : : : : :

Free Epub – 10 chapters of OUTLAW

by Stephen Davies

Ten free chapters? It’s not every day you see that. Andersen Press have made a generous slice of OUTLAW available as a free epub download. Epubs are readable on many ebook readers including Sony Reader, Kobo, Nook, Ipad, Cybook Opus, iPhone and iPod Touch. If you don’t have an ebook reader you can read it [...]

Published: September 9, 2011 | Filed Under: Free Ebook, Outlaw, YA books | Tags: : : : : : : : : : : : : :
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