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Wikipedia and oral knowledge

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Wikipedia and oral knowledge

By
Sean Jacobs

Verifiability and no original research are two core content policies for contributors to Wikipedia.  You need to back entries with citations from print sources. What does that policy mean for societies with rich, oral knowledge cultures. Achal Prabhala, a Wikimedia fellow and a member of the Foundation’s advisory board, and some of his colleagues in South Africa and India, have other ideas for that policy.Check out the film, “People are Knowledge (directed by Priya Sen and Zen Marie):

Further Reading

Atayese

Honored in Yorubaland as “one who repairs the world,” Jesse Jackson’s life bridged civil rights, pan-Africanism, empire, and contradiction—leaving behind a legacy as expansive as it was imperfect.

Bread or Messi?

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Visiting Ngara

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Gen Z’s electoral dilemma

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A world reimagined in Black

By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed—and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.

Securing Nigeria

Nigeria’s insecurity cannot be solved by foreign airstrikes or a failing state, but by rebuilding democratic, community-rooted systems of collective self-defense.