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The Digital Age and African Studies Scholarship: Promoting access and visibility of information resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo
Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo*
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University of Zambia Library
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Africa is a region made up of different countries; occupied by people of different ethnicities and cultures with a rapidly growing population. “Africa's population has been growing 2.3 per cent per year, a rate more than double that of Asia's population (1 per cent per year). The population of Africa first surpassed a billion in 2009 and is expected to add another billion in just 35 years (by 2044)”. It is also a region whose countries are at different levels of development; politically, socially and economically. Politically, at least since the 1990s, most of the countries are moving away from one party forms of governance and military dictatorships to multiparty political dispensations. Socially it has been affected and afflicted by poverty, diseases and internal conflicts that have brought a lot of suffering to its peoples.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 118 , 2012 , pp. 33 - 43
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Copyright © International African Institute 2012

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1 United Nations Population Fund, The State of World Population 2011 (New York, United Nations Population Fund, 2011), p. 5, available at http://iran.unfpa.org/images/photo/EN-SWOP2011-FINAL.pdf, retrieved on 12 October 2012.

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3 AcademyHealth, ‘Health Services Research and Health Policy Grey Literature Project: Summary Report’ (2006), available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/greylitreport_06.html. retrieved on 11 October 2012.

4 J.Msuya, ‘Challenges and opportunities in the protection and preservation of indigenous knowledge in Africa', International Review of Information Ethics, 7 (September 2007), pp.1-14, avalailable at http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/007/38-msuya.pdf, retrieved on 12 October 2012, p. 4.

5 W. C. Kanyengo, ‘Managing Digital Information Resources in Africa: preserving the Integrity of Scholarship', The International Information and Library Review, 41, 1 (2009), pp.34 - 43, p.40.

6 J.Msuya, ‘Challenges and opportunities in the protection and preservation of indigenous knowledge in Africa', International Review of Information Ethics, 7 (September 2007), pp.1-14, avalailable at http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/007/38-msuya.pdf, retrieved on 12 October 2012, p. 7.

7 W. C. Kanyengo, ‘Preservation and Conservation of Information Resources in the University of Zambia Library', Journal of Archival Organization, 7, 3(July 2009), pp.116 — 128, p. 127.

8 F. Khumalo, ‘Plagiarism is just like stealing. If words don't come easy, some simply filch them', (2009), Times Live. September 12,available at http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/article95945.ece, retrieved on 12 October 2012.

9 Z. B. Nsibirwa, ‘The Future of The Past: Preservation of, and Access to, Legal Deposit Materials at the Msunduzi Municipal Library, Pietermaritzburg’ (MA thesis, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg South Africa, 2007), p. 109 available at http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10413/84/Nsibirwa_ZB_2007.pdf?sequence=3, retrieved on 12 October 2012.