Böcker av Costain Tandi

This book interrogates media and technology in the 21st century higher and tertiary education in Africa. Using Zimbabwe as its case study, thebook highlights the immense changes that the digital revolution has brought to higher institutions of learning in Africa, including changes in teaching and learning. Framed from an anti-colonial perspective, the book argues that digital change, though critical in revolutionising education in Africa, has come with a price as it has resulted in some epistemological erasures and injustices meted against the poor. The book makes a critical contribution as it quests to correct the misdemeanours and injustices caused by digital gaps in African societies. The authors argue that the future and success of digital technology in Africa lie in how well African countries will culturally and contextually sensor technology and attend to the problems caused by digital gaps. The book provides a re-invigorated overview and nuanced analyses of the role of media and technology in revolutionising 21st century higher and tertiary education in Africa. It provides pointers and insights on how African countries can reformulate their education policy in a manner that is in sync with the level of digital technology of the time. This is an important addition to critical debates on media and technology studies in education in Africa.COSTAIN TANDI is a PhD Candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and a Principal Lecturer for National and Strategic Studies at Mkoba Teachers College, Gweru, Zimbabwe. His research interests include Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Climate change and Variability, Rural Poverty, Agriculture, Community Development, Cultural Studies, African Jurisprudence (African Philosophy of Law), Ethnographic methodologies, Sociology of Development, and Entomology. MUNYARADZI MAWERE (PhD) is Professor Extraordinarius of Interdisciplinary Research in the School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies at the University of South Africa, and a Full Professor of African Studies and incumbent Research Chair in the Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe.MARTIN MUKWAZHE is a PhD Candidate at the University of South Africa, and the incumbent Principal of Mkoba Teachers College, Gweru, Zimbabwe. His research interests include African Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, and Ethics

Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. With a fifth, mainly from the rural areas of the world, living below the poverty datum line, the world has a huge challenge to reduce poverty, worse still to eradicate it from the face of the earth. A target was set through the 2000-2015 United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and subsequently through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to reduce poverty by at least half by the years 2015 and 2030 respectively. In pursuing this goal, livelihoods of poor people though meeting with serious challenges, especially in rural areas, play a major role. This book explores the role played by people-centred Public Works Programmes in the fight against poverty and the development of rural communities in Africa. Whereas a number of countries in Africa have been approaching the issue of poverty through several interventions including Public Works Schemes, it is sad to note that poverty still tops the rankings among numerous economic and social challenges facing the continent. One wonders whether the public works strategy is misguided, misconstrued or mismanaged considering that its main objective is to make the unemployed more employable through the provision of temporary employment and training opportunities. The book concludes that Public Works Programmes, if well managed and people-centred, are one of the best ways to alleviate and even eradicate poverty in rural Africa, as it allows governments to make partnership with people, and facilitates implementation while giving space for economic self-sustenance, growth and development.