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could be likened to as functional equivalent of electricity in the industrial era (Castells, 1998).

The viewpoints outlined in this paper shows that ICT underlies all sectors and have a significant

impact on changing academic curricula thereby elevating academic standard among students in

colleges and universities in Africa. The achievement of integrating ICT to academic environment

could also have a monumental impact in advancing development in Africa because through the

building of human capacity and skillful abstraction by education, a society’s development index

increases. The integration of technological innovations will give an overview of what is being

achieved through ICT and will serve as a basis for strong instructional bedrock and innovation that

would attract considerable academic development in most of the institutions of higher learning in

Africa. The paper has also shown that with ICT adequately integrated in the academic environment of

African colleges and universities, tremendous changes will become obvious both in the way curricula

are planned and the mode of instructions will no doubt be significantly impacted.

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