The Political Economy of Information: Malawi Under Kamuzu Banda, 1964-94
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Auteurs : Paul SturgesSource :
- International Information and Library Review [ 1057-2317 ] ; 1998.
Abstract
The importance of power relationships in defining information, governing its availability, and prestructuring its effect are illustrated from the experiences of Kamuzu Banda's Malawi. Attempts to develop a national information policy were rendered irrelevant by official suppression of information and the surveillance of the population to prevent dissent. Even when there were information systems to serve national planning and decision-making, Banda and his advisers ignored them and allowed them to wither away. Access to information was effectively denied to excluded social groups including members of opposition political movements, speakers of minority languages, Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims. Only an alliance of political cronies, business associates and officials had full access to vital market, technical and agricultural information, despite the existence of extension systems with an ostensible role to disseminate information. Women, in particular, suffered deeply embedded structural discrimination that limited their information access. On the basis of this study, information professionals are advised to develop strategies based on analyses of real information and communication patterns, in preference to the facile optimism about the power of information that is common in the literature of librarianship.
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