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| Abstract title: |
Manufacturing and consuming knowledge: african libraries and publishing |
| Author: | Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |
| Issue: | Vol. 6, Number 4 1996 |
The article examines the problems facing African scholars and publishers, in the context of rapid developments in information technology and a deepening economic gulf between industrialised and Third World countries. Many of these problems, and conventional responses to them from libraries, publishers, and donors, are themselves a legacy of colonial relations; the most significant of which is the deepening dependence on western forms of knowledge and systems for its validation. Questioning the terms information-rich and information-poor, the author stresses the need for Africans to develop the means to generate, value, and disseminate their own forms of knowledge.
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