The Digitization of Africa.
Globalization and technological change are driving new developments in electronic publishing and learning—developments that are dominating the transmission of educational information. African studies in the North are harnessing these developments to enhance the study of Africa. While control of, and...
| Publicado en: | Africa Today Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 3 - 20 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter 2005
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