Niall McNulty has been invited to present at a meeting of the Oral History Association of South Africa, to be held in Kimberley on the 15th March. Niall will be discussing his work on digital media projects such as the Ulwazi Programme, which uses oral history methodology to collect indigenous knowledge and local history from communities around …
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Hello Internet, do you speak Zulu?
“Not yet, but I’m learning”. There is still a noticeable lack of online content in Zulu, despite the fact that over 11 million South Africans list Zulu as their first language, according to Census 2011. The New Wave report notes that the growth in Internet usage in South Africa is driven by young, mobile users, …
SAHJ paper now available online
Grant has recently published the first paper from his PhD findings in the South Africa Historical Journal. It focuses on custodianship of the past in a variety of forms in Umbumbulu, near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. The paper examines the Ulwazi Programme, which Niall has been a part of running for the last four years, as …
The Role of Archives in Nation Building
Interesting article about how archives are being used in South Sudan as part of the nation building project. Dr Johnson, a distinguished Sudan historian, best known for his work on the Abyei Boundaries Commission, and author of The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars andWhen Borders Become Boundaries, explained that every government produces new documents daily, and …