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elo262012

Un mois en Finlande, pays au mille lacs / Kuukausi Suomessa

By Richard Tandjoma (au-dessous en finnois / suomennos alla)

Ma venue en Finlande cette année était pour moi une occasion certes de visiter la Finlande et de mieux expérimenter la culture finlandaise pour mieux comprendre, sinon comprendre plus la réaction et la manière de vivre des finlandais, mais aussi une nécessite pour mieux expliciter et cohabiter les deux comptabilités, finlandaise d’une part, et béninoise sinon SYSCOAHADA (Système Comptable Ouest-Africain pour l’Harmonisation du Droit des Affaires) d’autre part, deux réalités … </br></br> Lue lisää

huhti272012

Villa Karo in May

One more month before it’s time for the last scholarship holders to leave Villa Karo’s residency and return to Finland. It’s been a good year with, as usual, many moments of happiness and times of being lost in translation, cultural faux-pas’ and moments of mutual understanding in Villa Karo. But it’s not the end of the year yet! Here’s what’s happening in the times to come.

This year’s second last sholarship holder translator, researcher Simo Määttä will reach Grand-Popo by … </br></br> Lue lisää

maalis172012

This is Grand-Popo – and some history

Click on the map above and you’ll see the village of Grand-Popo!

This map was drawn some years ago by Finnish artist Tini Sauvo, and as she writes, it is an outline ment to give the idea of the village: and to encourage to discover and find new paths.

Life in Grand-Popo is lively and new establishments are always appearing on the places of old ones. In this map you can’t for example yet see the Lion Bar – … </br></br> Lue lisää

helmi132012

COMPUTERS AND INTERNET IN GRAND-POPO

These two words are sufficient to keep alive a generation. Before computer era the world was as natural as ever, post men were happy to ride and distribute mails here and there, ships and planes made brisk business but this was subverted by invention of computer and internet. Western world and industrialized nations rapidly grew with these new technologies that bade farewell to an older generation.

Despite great unemployment created by this innovation, the world seems to be happy. Back … </br></br> Lue lisää