Article published in the latest issue of Knowledge Management for Development Journal

Niall McNulty has recently had an article published in the international journal Knowledge Management for Development. The article – The number in my pocket: the power of mobile technology for the exchange of indigenous knowledge – explores ways in which mobile technology could be used to collect and disseminate indigenous knowledge and local history. An online …

ARCHIVAL ASPIRATIONS AND ANXIETIES

CONTEMPORARY PRESERVATION AND PRODUCTION OF THE PAST IN UMBUMBULU, KWAZULU-NATAL Grant McNulty is presenting a paper at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity seminar. This paper offers an ethnographic investigation of the contemporary preservation and production of the past in Umbumbulu, a peri-urban area to the south of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. As …

North Coast Writers Trail Launched

The North Coast Writers Trail – developed with UKZN’s KZN Literary Tourism project and funded by the National Arts Council and the Ilembe Municipality – has been recently launched. The trail features writers such as Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, Dianne Stewart, Chief Albert John Luthuli and Mafika Pascal Gwala, while stops include Ballito, Morewood, Groutville and …

SCECSAL 2012: Impressions of invited experts

Niall McNulty attended SCECSAL 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya earlier this year as an invited expert, hosted by the Goethe Institut. His – and the other invited participants – thoughts on the conference our published online at the Goethe Institut website: “A stand out session at the conference for me was the presentation by Ellen Tise …