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Title The power of information and coping with albinism An autoethnographic study
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11070/3254
Date 2022
Author(s) Ngula, Anna Kaukowe
Abstract This article aims to ascertain the purposes for which the author needed information when her children with albinism were born, as well as explore the mechanisms she used to find information and the challenges she experienced when searching for information. An autoethnography method is used to share her lived experience of albinism, and the data has been collected through the author's personal memory by recalling events that happened when she gave birth to her daughter in 2013 and her son in 2016. Information played a crucial role in helping the author to understand albinism better and to deal with her predicament. As a librarian and the mother of children with albinism, the author explored different mechanisms to find information. The Internet was the main source of information, as well as organisations such as Support in Namibia of Albinism Sufferers Requiring Assistance and the Namibia Albino Association Trust, which deal with the plight of people with albinism in the country.
Subject(s) Information needs; albinism; autoethnography; information sources; disabilities; information seeking
Language en
Publisher IFLA Journal
Type of publication Article
Identifier Ngula, A.K. (2021). The power of information and coping with albinism: an autoethnographic study. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Journal, 1'11.
Repository Windhoek - University of Namibia
Added to C-A: 2022-09-14;10:34:21