...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...

...Anthony Olden; Johannes J. Britz; Shana Ponelis Purpose In the globalized world the movement of scholars facilitates the global flow of knowledge and supports the pillars of the knowledge economy as defined by the World Bank. But not all academics are born equal: African scholars face significant...

... never saw such an awkward people, with machinery; you see, they were totally unused to it (Twain, 1889, p. 437) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Labour Information Knowledge economy A fundamental dynamic has been detected in capitalism. Innovation in techniques...