...Anthony Olden; Kgomotso H. Moahi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore why Africa's indigenous knowledge is not playing a more active and visible role in the knowledge economy and to the roles that academia and librarians must play for it to be so. Design/methodology/approach...

... and education and development in African countries in general. Based on our moral analysis we propose the establishment of a “Global Knowledge Treaty” that should form the basis for the less restrictive travel of academics around the world – in particular academics from Africa. We furthermore argue...

... of libraries for the African context and in evaluating the overseas book donation model currently practised in many locations. Johanna Anderson can be contacted at: johannaanders25@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Africa School libraries Literacy Malawi Schools...

...B.M. Chivhanga The article describes the diffusion of the Internet in Africa and its impact on its people, organisations and socio‐economic activities. It shows which countries are leading the way and why, and more importantly the problems confronted by people in different countries. A conceptual...