Stephen Davies

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

Tag: Ouagadougou

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: : : : : : : : : : : : :

Welcome to Burkina Faso

by Stephen Davies

I met this lad in Ouagadougou (capital of Burkina Faso) a few weeks ago. We found ourselves sitting next to each other at a street-corner Nescafe kiosk and talked about this and that. He told me about his life as an aspiring reggae musician and about his encounter the previous day with rioting militia. He [...]

Published: August 8, 2011 | Filed Under: Photos | Tags: : : :

Severe Unrest in Ouagadougou

by Stephen Davies

So it seems I have chosen a bad time to visit Ouagadougou. On Thursday there were huge demonstrations against rising food prices – “la vie chère”. On Friday the military ran amok, shooting in the air, looting and carjacking. On Saturday, shopkeepers were on the streets, demonstrating against the pillaging and the collapse of their [...]

Published: April 17, 2011 | Filed Under: Uncategorized | Tags: : : : : : : : : : : : :

One week’s wages to buy a book

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Am negotiating the sale of ‘Albino Camel’ book rights with an African publisher here at FILO. Sticking point: he is proposing a cover price of 11,000 CFA – that’s almost 15 pounds sterling. Bear in mind that a typical day wage for unskilled labour here in Ouagadougou is 1,000 CFA and you’ll see what the [...]

Published: December 20, 2010 | Filed Under: FILO 2010 | Tags: : :