Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 25 No. 76 Innovation in Mali

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	Innovation in Mali
Author:	Alex Duval Smith
Location:	Vol.25 No.76 (June 1998), pp285-287

In a country where women weave elegant brace-lets out of discarded coloured plastic and men fashion useful objects from old oil cans, there are no prizes for ingenuity. But even Malians were impressed five years ago, when a Swiss man with a flowing white beard turned up in a Sahel desert village bear-ing four hunks of steel which were to liberate women, give children the opportunity to play as well as work, and improve literacy.

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