what is digital divide, and how could this phenomenon positively affect Sub Saharan African nations?
What are some of the underlying factors militating against emancipation from digital divide and thus bridging the gap in Sub-Saharan Africa? These are important issues that would be explored in the course of this writing. Because of the difficulty in collation of data across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), data is often collated for one or two countries and reasonably extrapolated to other SSA countries. Digital divide essentially looks at the comparative gap between access to and utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among human populations in developing and developed countries (international digital divide) and in fact within developing countries themselves (intra-national digital divide). Current literature argues that access to ICT is a panacea for development, though arguably true, but has often been short-sighted in considering the underlying elementary issues that have militated against closing the digital gap particularly in SSA nations where fundamental socio
