This paper examines the development of archives administration in Nigeria, beginning with the early efforts of the Colonial Office in London to preserve the official records of the Nigerian Secretariat. It then discusses in detail Dr Kenneth Dike's ...

The Government's budget plays a significant role in the management of the nation's economy and controls the management and allocation of resources across government. This article examines the four stages of the budgetary cycle: preparation, enactment, ...

A claim for damages brought by a group of elderly Africans against the British Government for alleged torture during the Kenyan ‘Mau Mau’ emergency in the 1950s and 1960s led to a demand by the High Court that all relevant documentation be produced. ...

This article compares the findings and recommendations of Marcia Wright's 1962 UNESCO-funded study of the records and archives of Tanganyika with the present situation of the National Archives of Tanzania. It provides an overview of record-keeping in ...

This article analyses the effects that Zimbabwe's political and economic situation has had on the National Archives from the 1990s to the present day. These have included problems of recruiting and retaining professional staff members and of long term ...

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of research into the existing infrastructure for managing public archives in Uganda. This study has revealed the lack of national policy for archives management and an absence of assigned ...

The Teachers' Records Management Improvement Programme in Sierra Leone was established to improve teachers' personnel information, remove the existence of ghost workers from the payroll and prevent data inaccuracies. This article analyses known issues ...

E-government initiatives are often part of broader reforms to improve public sector performance in delivering services to citizens and to businesses and in increasing efficiency. This paper discusses electronic records management (ERM) as one of the ...

L'article traite des conclusions du projet Aligner la gestion des documents aux technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC)/e-gouvernement et accès aux informations dans la Communauté Est Africaine (CEA), subventionné par l'IDRC (Centre ...

Kenya's first professional association for records managers and archivists, the Kenya Association of Records Managers and Archivists (KARMA), was established in 2010 after several previous attempts to form a professional body for records ...

L'article présente les travaux entrepris par l'administration burkinabé, les Archives nationales du Burkina Faso, le Conseil international des archives, Archivistes sans frontières-France, l'Association des archivistes français et les Archives ...

‘Accountability’ is suggestive of many different meanings and can be a difficult concept to define, especially in relation to archives. This article analyses various definitions of accountability, for example in legal, political, social-cultural and ...