A well loaded truck

February 17th 2012
After spending two days in NYC visiting an old friend from college and walking around the city taking in all of the sights and sounds, I rushed off (almost too late) to meet some of my traveling companions from Minnesota. I met my father, Books for Africa founder Tom Warth, and Lang Dibba (a Gambia living in MN) at JFK for the overnight flight to Dakar. Africa really does begin on the plane, w ... read more

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Independent from France in 1960, Senegal joined with The Gambia to form the nominal confederation of Senegambia in 1982. However, the envisaged integration of the two countries was never carried out, and the union was dissolved in 1989. Despite peace... ... read more

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Andrew Ayres

Africa Book Walk

In February a group will be joining Books For Africa (BFA) founder Tom Warth, who will lead a group from BFA and Hand In Health (HIH) to The Gambia to meet with elected officials along with prominent business and university members about ways to help end the book famine and support the United Nations Development Goals of educating women and children. As part of the journey the BFA team will join others from HIH for the first ever African Book Walk. We will do two walks through the capital of The Gambia accompanied by children from many local schools. Then as a team we will walk the Trans-Ga... full info

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