by Bernard C. Moore | May 6, 2016 | CHI Announcements, CHI Fellowship Program
This post officially declares the project launch of the Namibia Digital Repository! For the past year, I have been slowly digitizing and piecing together a Namibian Studies online digital library. Far too often, existing scholarly materials pertaining to Namibia are...
by Bernard C. Moore | Apr 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
A Review of Namibiana Resources on the Web As I have mentioned in previous Blog posts for the CHI, the Namibia Digital Repository contains two main endeavors. First, it is a digitization project; countless hours have been spent standing in front of scanners digitizing...
by Bernard C. Moore | Mar 4, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
March 2013, Helsinki: I had the privilege to interview Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Prize Laureate, for my documentary film From Windhoek to Washington. From 1977 through 1981, Ahtisaari was the United Nations Special Representative for...
by Bernard C. Moore | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
My past couple of posts have been more on the political and ethical side of digitizing materials for the Namibia Digital Repository. This post will approach the project from the other side: the process of digitization. For those who are conducting historical research,...
by Bernard C. Moore | Dec 19, 2015 | CHI Project Info
The politics of publishing in African studies are controversial and problematic. This is the dilemma: foreign researchers are able to obtain more funds than African-based academics to conduct often very innovative research projects. In order to obtain tenure, and...
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