School of Social Sciences

Francis Garaba

Francis Garaba

Francis Garaba

Senior Lecturer

DisciplineInformation Studies

Email garaba@ukzn.ac.za

Contact Number 033-260-5321

CampusPietermaritzburg Campus

Office Address Office 318, New Arts Building

Last Updated 2 years ago

Degrees held

  • BA Hons, University of Zimbabwe
  • MIS, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
  • PhD (UKZN)

Research Interests

  • Records and archives management in national liberation movements, schools and colleges, churches and sports associations.

Teaching Interests

  • Records and archives management, information management and Librarianship.

Selected Publications

Lectures Presented

  • Pockets of excellence and mediocrity: the state of archives in South Africa, 1994 -2016. Lecture presented at the International Institute for Archival Science of Trieste (Italy) and Maribor (Slovenia) “IIAS”, 26th IIAS conference, 27 October 2016.

Awards and Honors

  • Canon Collins Scholar 2004-2009