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 DEVELOPMENT & URBAN STUDIES
Access to Knowledge in Africa
The role of copyright
C ARMSTRONG, J DE BEER, D KAWOOYA,
A PRABHALA & T SCHONWETTER (EDITORS)
The emergence of the Internet and the digital world has changed the way people access, produce and share information and knowledge. Yet people in Africa face challenges in accessing scholarly publications, journals and learning materials in general. At the heart of these challenges, and solutions to them, is copyright, the branch of intellectual property rights that covers written and related works. This book gives the reader an understanding of the legal and practical issues posed by copyright for access to learning materials in Africa, and identifies the relevant lessons, best policies and best practices that would broaden and deepen this access. This book is based on the work of the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) research network, launched in late 2007 as a network of researchers committed to probing the relationship between copyright and learning materials access in eight African countries: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda.
Cities with ‘Slums’
From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
M HUCHZERMEYER
The title of this book deliberately suggests a critique of the Cities Without Slums campaign, which has unwittingly legitimised large-scale evictions from informal settlements in many African cities, from Abuja in Nigeria to Cape Town in South Africa. The African continent often looks to South African urban policy for a solution to what is perceived as the escalating ‘problem’ of slums. South African cities’ global competitiveness in attracting investment, their hosting of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and their determination to eradicate informal settlements
by 2014 have been promoted as best practice. And yet, the South African
target to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 was perhaps the most tragic misinterpretation and abuse of the Millennium Goal to ‘significantly improve the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020’, to which the unfortunate slogan of Cities Without Slums is attached.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marie Huchzermeyer is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the author of Unlawful Occupation: Informal Settlements and Urban Policy in South Africa and Brazil (AWP, 2004), co-editor of Informal Settlements: A perpetual challenge? (UCT Press, 2006) and author of Tenement Cities: From 19th Century Berlin to 21st Century Nairobi (AWP, 2011).
SUITABLE FOR
• Academics and students in development and urban studies
• Policy-makers
• NGOs and government organisations dealing with housing rights.
978 1 91989 545 1 2010
384 PAGES
ZAR R445.00
            978 1 91989 539 0 978 1 92054 162 0 978 1 92054 124 8 978 1 92051 676 5 2011
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ZAR R430.00 ZAR R401.00 ZAR R401.00 ZAR R401.00
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