African-Centered Internet Literacy: An Ubuntugogy Metadata Approach.
The inspiration for this paper was given birth by a suggestion from the referees of a paper titled "Generating Metadata to Study and Teach about African Issues" in Information Technology and People (2014) Faleh Alshameri and I wrote. We had mentioned and briefly discussed the Ubuntugogy paradigm in...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 10; no. 10; pp. 88 - 109 |
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