Desert Artisans' wares, in turn, find their way onto the shelves of Fabindia, a leading retail chain of handcrafted garments and home products, including furniture, upholstery, handwoven rugs and organic foods.
But it's a measure of the dominance of oral culture over the printed word both here and in the rest of Africa that Ivory Coast's leading book shop chain says it's only sold four thousand copies of Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots.