Meet the Library and Information Science trailblazer honoured with the Newcomer of the Year Award at Wikipedia’s annual conference
In a world where a gender imbalance persists in knowledge management, publishing and research dissemination, one woman has defied the odds and blazed the trail in a field largely dominated by men. This is none other than Dr Nkem Osuigwe, currently the Director of Human Capacity Development and Training, and the Chair of the Public Library Section of the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) in Accra, Ghana. Dr Nkem shares, “In my culture, women could dream, but most women could not aspire to be all they wanted to be, because sometimes there were invisible barriers that kept women down, not...
