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The application of ICTs as a tool for effective enhancement of learning, teaching and education management covers the entire spectrum of education from early childhood development, primary, secondary, tertiary, basic education and further education and training. This article however focuses on attempts at introducing ICTs in formal primary and secondary school education in Africa.

Any consideration of the use of ICTs as a tool for the advancement of African girls and women in education has to confront three major contextual areas:

• Educational and development issues
• ICT issues
• Gender issues (and the confluence between these three).

This paper contends that a clear conceptual framework in problematising the education crisis from a developmental, gendered and ICT perspective is lacking and is critical in providing conceptual clarity on appropriate strategies for using ICTs as a tool for women’s empowerment particularly in Africa. Download this report here