Biruk highlights that the demographic surveys she studies "raise the specter of the exploitation, extractive logics, racism, and ethnocentrism that have underlain science in Africa," (22)....Read more
AO: An important point made by the authors is the importance of careful consideration of who is driving the creation and maintenance of the archive. Who is assembling and curating the materials...Read more
AO: According to this excerpt from Carotenuto and Luongo (2005), KNA's work in the first few decades of the newly independent Kenya was to repatriate documents removed from Kenya by the outgoing...Read more
AO: Mnjama (2003) points out that ... "increasingly, government institutions are creating records in electronic formats. As the introduction of modern information and communication technologies is...Read more
