A symptom that defies analysis: is this simply xenophobia?.
- Authors: Kyazze, Simwogerere
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159337 , vital:40289 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC140106
- Description: On 29 January 29 2007 I travelled on an SAA flight from Entebbe International Airport in Uganda to OR Tambo International in Johannesburg. Somehow, I had forgotten, ignored or failed to travel with my Yellow Fever Certificate and an Immigration Officer let me have it.
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- Date Issued: 2008
The symbiosis between capitalists:
- Authors: Kyazze, Simwogerere
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159211 , vital:40277 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146362
- Description: Question: Who is the most famous writer of the New Millennium? Answer: JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter stories. If you answered in the affirmative, you will be forgiven for sharing the view of many teenagers (and an increasing number of young adults) around the world who swear by Mr Potter's benign witchcraft. But while we ponder the Harry Potter juggernaut (Ms Rowling's books are bestsellers in any language), let us also ponder why very few serious intellectuals make it to the top of the world's most famous best-seller lists (The New York Times, Amazon.com, Times of London, etc). There is a reason why Gore Vidal, Jeffery Sachs, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said, have all had some of their best work published by little known outfits such as St Mark's Publishing House, and not celebrated imprints of the Simon and Schuster or Alfred Knopf calibre.
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- Date Issued: 2005
Pipes, poles and people:
- Authors: Kyazze, Simwogerere
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159153 , vital:40273 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146268
- Description: Tina James, a South African ICT consultant, tells the story of Minnie Barendse Kruger who had been struggling to get a Khoisan Cultural Village going in the Eastern Cape. Kruger set up a restaurant where traditional food is prepared, and the Barendse Griquas Trust stepped in and helped set up a multi-purpose Community Centre.
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- Date Issued: 2003
The OSS promise:
- Authors: Kyazze, Simwogerere
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159138 , vital:40271 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146251
- Description: For Africa the attraction of open source software (OSS), is obvious. But for once, Internet intellectuals are not simply sounding off to annoy the rich north.
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- Date Issued: 2003
The stories in the details:
- Authors: Kyazze, Simwogerere
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159177 , vital:40274 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146272
- Description: A famous journalism adage is that "the story is in the details". For the world Information Society, those details might be in the mind-blowing technological advances in recent years and the dizzying alternative news sources; and in the increased novelty in story telling.
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- Date Issued: 2003
The World Internet Project:
- Authors: Kyazze, Simwogerere
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159116 , vital:40269 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146247
- Description: Here's a disturbing detail from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): only 1 in 118 Africans has access to the Internet. This ratio is actually skewed, partly because it averages out statistics in big countries (Egypt, South Africa) and the big cities (Johannesburg, Cairo, Cape Town, Lagos) with their poorer country cousins (Central African Republic, Mauritania).
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- Date Issued: 2003
Weblogging is ‘We Media’:
- Authors: Kyazze, Simwogerere
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159134 , vital:40270 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146248
- Description: "Blogging technology has begun to deliver on some of the wild promises about the Internet that were heard in the 1990s," wrote Matt Welch in the September/October issue of Columbia Journalism Review, America's leading media monitor published by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
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- Date Issued: 2003