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Idoniboye-Obu T. I..

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ABSTRACT This paper examined the opportunities and challenges that information and communication technology (ICT) development has brought for Africa. The paper sees ICT as a blessing in different facets of the word in the positive light than the negative in Africa as a continent. The paper presents ICT as the god of this world that can and has turned things around with the spark of technology in every facet of the word in terms of air travel industry, banking, culture, education, health, environment, research and so forth. These are some of the opportunities ICT brought to Africa that the paper addressed. The paper equally discussed few challenges of ICT that are very key in most African countries of the world which are but not limited to only these. The challenges discussed are improper planning, acquisition and maintenance of technologies, linguistics, political instability, lack of infrastructure and so forth. The paper therefore recommends in a nutshell that since African countries are phased with numerous challenges, there should be a proper plan to lift Africa from these challenges discussed in this paper and others not listed in this paper to be addressed without further delay to bring about the needed change that Africa needs. Keywords: opportunities, challenges, ICT, development, and Africa

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