Despite concerted efforts to adopt the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs),¹ Africa still lags the rest of the world. In fact, 90% of Africans currently live in extreme poverty,² which affects access to quality education, good health, and other SDGs.

Although the literacy rate has steadily increased to 66% over the last four decades,³ access to quality education, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, remains low. Furthermore, institutions for higher education continue to endure inadequate access to teaching and learning resources, such as laboratory equipment, internet, human resources, and physical infrastructure. This access barrier inevitably compromises the quality of teaching and learning of science, technology, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, which demand additional teaching and learning tools for effective learning.