For this literate, word-loving chronicler of the world he sees around him, acting offers different stimuli.
Related: Cash from cassava: better breeds of the staple will boost development "I need to visually explain the facts about nutrition to women," says Kayentoo, referencing the fact that less than a third of adult women are literate in Mali.
"Government needs to be literate in technology so that they can effectively support the tech industry.
How do organisations ensure that they are not just offering a platform to the elite, those girls in any community who are already literate and whose parents allow for her to attend meetings?
The judges said the Guardian had relaunched in its new Berliner format with enormous panache, producing a sharp, readable, quirky and literate paper.
Oink's heavily trafficked user forums revealed a community that resembled Ellis himself: technically literate middle-class twentysomethings, mostly male, enrolled in university or employed in entry-level jobs.
The awards demonstrate Hollywood's novel eagerness to be beguiled by a smart, literate script with classy performances from intelligent grown-ups.
Itinerant teacher Mamesh supported Bhya through her schooling and she undertook a six-month course in Bangalore which has made her computer literate.
"If we have young, politically literate people coming through, that is the way to democratise".
The more literate of them quote Thoreau.
On February 4th he called critics of the nuclear deal "barely literate".
