As conversations around digital learning, artificial intelligence and STEAM continue to gain momentum across Africa, attention is increasingly turning to how these approaches can strengthen foundational learning – particularly in the early years. Yet behind the enthusiasm lies a more complex question: what actually works, for whom, and under what conditions? Milisa Janda, an evaluator and researcher with over a decade of experience in […]

As misinformation continues to spread rapidly across digital platforms, the challenge is no longer just access to information – but the ability to understand, question and navigate it critically. Across Africa, this places new responsibility on education systems and learning tools to respond in ways that are locally relevant, accessible and effective. At the Ghana Library Authority, Nora Serwah Obeng works on the frontlines […]

Mwanga wa Elimu Secretariat Africa has no shortage of brilliant EdTech solutions. What it has lacked, for decades, is the infrastructure to carry them to scale. Four structural barriers have blocked progress consistently across the continent. Policy fragmentation prevents cross-border deployment and creates vendor lock-in. Technology fragmentation makes localisation and curriculum alignment prohibitively expensive for any single developer. The absence of shared, comparable data […]

At a time of rapid technological change and shifting global dynamics, questions of power, ownership and direction are becoming increasingly central to Africa’s future. As digital systems reshape economies and societies, the challenge is no longer simply one of access, but of agency: who defines the tools, the systems, and the terms on which they operate. Few individuals have engaged with these questions as […]

With just under eight weeks to go until we gather for eLearning Africa 2026, Ghana presents itself not only as a host country, but as a destination of considerable depth and variety. From its Atlantic coastline and historic trading towns to forest reserves and cultural centres, it offers a landscape shaped as much by its past as by its present. The conference will be […]

In 1977 I visited this school in a rural part of what was then South Bihar, now Jharkhand in India.  The children inside sat quietly on narrow benches, and the proud teacher was delighted to show us around, especially since we were the guests of the civil society organisation that was supporting the school.  The children all had bright faces and appeared eager to learn; they […]