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PURPOSE OF STUDY

This paper, therefore, provides an insight into the role of ICT in changing academic curricula

in Africa’s higher educational system, will show how the infusion of technological innovations in

information and communication structures will impact the future instructional materials and content

delivery in colleges and universities in Africa. It will also review ICT policy and integration approach

in the school systems in various African nations.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PAPER

The significance of this research lies in its assumption that information communication

technology (ICT) would play a considerable role in the changing of academic curricula in the African

higher educational system as it has done in the civilized Western democracies. The understanding

that ICT, if adequately utilized, will enhance the educational system in Africa is very obvious looking

at the tremendous positive role it has played in changing the educational landscape in most of the

Western civilized nations of the world.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

This paper is anchored on Rogers (1962) diffusion of innovation theory whose premise is

predicated on how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. In view

of Rogers’ (1962) conceptual framework, the theme of this paper, therefore, hinges on the process by

which ICT is communicated through certain channels over time among the various African nations’

institutions of learning.