I read it in a paper by Alwyn Young, honest!

African access to libraries is shockingly low... this would have been the headline of my blog post about conditions for reading in Africa if Young's comprehensive reporting of statistics from what social scientists call the DHS surveys (Demographic and Health Surveys) had included measures of access to libraries... but the DHS doesn't ask about that, so I made it up... yes, this is a PHOTOSHOPPED version of Young's table... But, based on my intimate knowledge of Burkina Faso, with 8,000 villages and 10 village libraries... my made up number is optimistic....






*Full disclosure:I used MSPaint...