Using Information Literacy to Control Harmful Traditional Practices among Nomadic Communities in Tana River County, Kenya
Abstract
The existence of harmful traditional practices (HTPs) in different African Communities has been the norm. The practices have been the cause of untold suffering over the years particularly to children and women resulting in their low social economic status. While many strategies have been developed and executed to address this problem, information literacy has been advanced as an effective tool to curtail the entrenchment of HTPs. The reduction and eradication of HTPs in various parts of the world has in the recent past been anchored on promotion of literacy levels since ignorance has been the bedrock of HTPs and the subsequent underdevelopment in communities practicing it. Information literacy has been known to break the cultural barriers and ignorance that promotes HTPs. Literacy promotes behavioral and attitudinal changes hitherto unknown. It questions the traditional and cultural status quo unquestioned before. This paper discusses the various HTPs in Tana River County of Kenya and demonstrates how information literacy can contribute towards eradication of the HTPs in this county in particular and Kenya in general.
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