Home 5 News 5 Ivory Coast Grooms Women for Beauty and Brains

Ivory Coast Grooms Women for Beauty and Brains

by | Feb 7, 2017 | News

As many African women spend much of their spare time in hair salons, Ivory Coast’s chief librarian and President of their National Library, Chantal Adjiman, came up with a brainwave scheme to help them read and learn to read.

A total 23 hair salons now offer customers a range of books on loan from the National Library. The book collections will be renewed several times a year through the ‘Alternate Lending’ programme, which features 175 French books, as it is Ivory Coast’s official language.

The initiative was launched by Adjiman in 2012, and has successfully engaged several women and young ladies, who usually have little time on their hands between work and childcare, to be able to allow themselves the opportunity to seek out books. The initiative’s management chose a collection of important books for women such as novels, and books on education, health, nutrition, psychology and childhood.

Related Posts

Lords Defend Artists in AI Clash

Lords Defend Artists in AI Clash

In the UK, the House of Lords has dealt a fourth defeat to the government over its plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their models. The Lords, who are looking for more protections for artists from AI, rejected the latest amendment to...

THE LOOK by Michelle Obama Coming in November

THE LOOK by Michelle Obama Coming in November

Crown Publishing Group has announced the upcoming release of THE LOOK, a new book by former First Lady Michelle Obama, set to hit shelves on November 4, 2025.   The book will be available in hardcover and eBook editions from Crown, with an audiobook version, narrated...

HarperCollins Bets on Fauzia Musa

HarperCollins Bets on Fauzia Musa

Juniper, the new literary fiction imprint of Harper Collins UK, has acquired the debut novel by award-winning journalist and design consultant Fauzia Musa that explores the lasting impact of Partition through the lens of one Muslim family.   Entitled The Strangling...

Previous Next
Close
Test Caption
Test Description goes like this