Agnes Mumbi
Chitambo (Angie) is the Vice President of
Zambia
Knowledge Bank (ZANOBA). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Zambia
Encyclopedia of Culture and Technology project that the organization
will
embark on soon.
Angie was born
in Mpika. She attended
primary,
secondary school, and undergraduate at the University of Zambia
in Lusaka. She
studied at,
and obtained a
Master of Library Science degree from the University
of
California, Los
Angeles, in 1987. She worked for the University of Zambia
Library until
1992, when she relocated to Mafikeng, South Africa.
She has conducted
research in the areas of
library and information services to
minority
groups, literacy,
gender and development.
Her hobbies
include traveling, writing, reading, and gardening.
She
appreciates the
arts in general (visual, performed etc).
Since August 1999,
she has been
living in Windhoek, where she works as Head of User Services in
the University
of Namibia Library.