South Africa's Role in Africa's Globalization Will Be Discussed May 20 at U of M
For release: May 4, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Noted information scientist Dr. Johannes Britz will discuss South Africa's role in the globalization of Africa during a talk May 20 at the University of Memphis' McWherter Library, Room 226. "Globalization and Africa: Light at the End of the Tunnel or an Oncoming Train?," is free and open to the public.

Britz is a professor of information science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

His presentation will have three parts. He will give a historical overview of the position of the white South African in Africa and the changes that occurred in 1994, when the country's first non-racial, democratically-elected parliament took office. Britz will next discuss the process of globalization and the idea of Africa as a "lost continent." Finally, he will argue that South Africa is the economic, political and technological leader in Africa; and he will explain why South African can succeed in putting Africa back on the world map, but also why it could fail to lead Africa into the era of globalization.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of the University of Memphis Libraries. For more information, call Tom Mendina at 678-4310.

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