Monthly Archives: October 2013
Écrire et publier en Afrique francophone
Conference announcement for March 2014 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Écrire et publier en Afrique francophone. Enjeux et perspectives. Le département de français de l’University of KwaZu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg en Afrique du Sud organise un colloque sur la littérature francophone écrite et publiée en Afrique. Celui-ci aura lieu du 17 au 19 mars 2014. La littérature africaine […]
Tweeting Westgate
An interesting review of the role of (and reactions to the use of) social media during the recent violence at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Reblogged from Savage Minds Backup and guest Dr. Sarah Hillewaert.
African countries sized by number of Wikipedia articles
Interactive map Is a country’s presence online based on its population size and access to the internet? Researchers at The Oxford Internet Institute mapped how much was written about each African country on the online reference site Wikipedia. The dropdown menu allows you to compare the data to a number of different factors. The researchers found […]
African concept car: SMATI Turtle 1
From the Set Up Shop site (most content in Dutch) comes an African concept car made from scrap parts in Ghana: The car is ready for export! The final testdrive is to the capital Accra. 250 KM, 12 roadblocks and many dustroads ahead. After nine weeks we develloped an African car from scratch; the SMATI TURTLE […]
Laws of preservation
Not for library geeks only? A thoughtful pair of blog entries on print and digital preservation: Paul Banks‘ 10 Laws of Preservation and Dave Thompson‘s 10 Laws of Digital Preservation. Thanks to Kevin Driedger for his library preservation blog.
The Decline of Wikipedia
The Decline of Wikipedia By Tom Simonite (October 22, 2013). MIT Technology Review. This article is worth some attention if you’re at all interested in the world’s most popular free online information resource. The community that built the largest encyclopedia in history is shrinking, even as more people and Internet services depend on it than ever. Can […]
Chat with Peter Suber
ASERL’s Open Access Week chat with Peter Suber The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) today hosted a discussion with Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office of Scholarly Communications. Suber this week blogged in The Guardian to put to rest six myths of Open Access. The format was an interactive interview with questions submitted by the online audience in […]
Cambridge African Studies Fellowships 2014-15
Centre of African Studies Cambridge Visiting Research Fellowships 2014-15 The Centre of African Studies invites applications for two Visiting Research Fellowships from candidates in all the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The aim of the Fellowships is to enable the fellows to focus on a period of research and writing in Cambridge. Preference […]
Cheetahs and Hippos: George Ayittey on African entrepreneurs
An inspirational presentation from TED and NPR‘s Ted Radio Hour: For years, George Ayittey has been speaking out against the corruption and complacency that he believes are the bedrock problems of many troubled African states. “We call our governments vampire states, which suck the economic vitality out of the people,” he says. He calls on a […]
Photo essay on the mentally ill in Africa
From Time‘s Lightbox newsletter: Photojournalist Robin Hammond has won the W. Eugene Smith award for his work on the mentally ill of subSaharan Africa. “Where there is war, famine, displacement, it is always the most vulnerable who suffer the greatest” says Hammond. The mentally ill, he notes, are a “voiceless minority condemned to lives of quiet misery.” […]
African Studies library 