Tiyaabu!: September 2010

See below links to websites featuring Malian art and music:

http://www.malichic.net/

http://www.tinariwen.com/

http://www.contrejour.com/artists/habibkoite/index2_uk.php?page=news

http://www.indigoarts.com/about1b.html

http://homepage.mac.com/melissaenderle/mali/pages/bogolan.html

Fun stuff! :)

Wish List

I love getting mail! Letters are beyond fabulous, but if you're feeling extra ambitious about sending a package, here are some ideas:

- Letters!!
- Velveeta or any other fake cheese product
- Brownie mix, or any baked good mix that only requires oil, eggs, and water
- Pretzels, chex mix, salty snacky things
- Dried fruit/nuts/beef jerky/granola bars
- Cookies, Skittles, Sweettarts, M&Ms, Oreos, etc...
- Koolaid, Crystal Light, or other individual drink mix packets
- Magazines (NewsWeek, TIME, People, Glamour, etc)
- Pictures of life wherever you are

My mailing address:
Jenny Rulon, PCV
Corps de la Paix
B.P. 104
Sevare, Mali
West Africa

Books Read While in Mali

1. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
2. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
3. Two Ears of Corn by Roland Bunch
4. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
5. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
6. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson
9. Pigs In Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
10. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
11. The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Barry
12. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
13. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
14. Sula by Toni Morrison
15. The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
16. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
17. America's Women by Gail Collins
18. Lucky by Alice Sebold
19. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
20. Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
21. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
22. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
23. Sun, Stone, & Shadows, ed. Jorge Hernandez
24. Letters of a Nation, ed. Andrew Carroll
25. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
26. Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris
27. The Summer of 1787 by David Stewart
28. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
29. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
30. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
31. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
32. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
34. The Old Man & The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
35. Guns, Germs, & Steel by Jared Diamond
36. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
37. High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
38. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
39. Persuasion by Jane Austen
40. I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
41. Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
42. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
43. Snow Flower & The Secret Fan by Lisa See
44. Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver
45. Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
46. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
47. Chain of Command by Seymour Hersh
48. Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger
49. True At First Light by Ernest Hemingway
50. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
51. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
52. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
53. Lady Susan, The Watsons, & Sandition by Jane Austen
54. The Trial by Franz Kafka
55. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
56. Africa Unchained by George Ayittey
57. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
58. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
59. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
60. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey
61. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
62. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
63. Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus
64. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
65. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
66. Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright
67. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
68. La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
69. Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson
70. Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
71. Naked by David Sedaris
72. Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
73. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
74. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
75. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
76. Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold by Marq de Villiers & Sheila Hirtle
77. Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
78. Persian Letters by Montesquieu
79. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
80. Emma by Jane Austen

Tiyaabu!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Malian Art & Music

Mali la! (134 photos), by Jenny Rulon

Festival sur le Niger (75 photos), by Jenny Rulon