Africaresource.com: Bridging the Digital Divide
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: What will be more important... is how future access to the “information superhighway” is maintained, and what will happen when (or if) marginalized communities come more firmly under the domination of the “owners” of gigabits of memory, satellite telecommunications, and undersea fiber optic cables strung around whole continents. I began this essay after an energizing meeting with a bright young scholar on starting a new journal for africaresource.com. The journal, we agreed, would address the knowledge concerns of a politically conscious generation engaged in transformatory critical scholarship. Its distinguishing feature would be the New Afrikan perspective that would offer radical readings of texts and cultural phenomena. Just as our discussion drew to a close the critical question came: So what exactly does africaresource.com stand for? The question was clearly prompted by histories of subversions of progressive initiatives that have made members of marginal communities wary of ventures that seem to owe their existence to shadowy financiers.
Source: African Issues
Author: Nzegwu Nkiru
Institution: Binghamton University
Language: English
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W92890206