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Editor-in-Chief's Introduction TOWARDS STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA VIA COMPUTING AND ICT

Computing and ICT no doubt form important pillars in the present day global modern technological processes and development. Although Africa can be said to have improved substantially in the quest for knowledge in this age, much structural advancement and progress in the larger part of the continent have not been noticed. This can be partly ascribed to the relatively meager investment and financial commitment to providing infrastructure for sustainable research. The effect of this is that the technological state and needs of the general African continent are not the same as those of the developed world. As such, research output which may be important for the present socio-econo-technological state of the continent may not quite appear useful in the developed world, and are thus usually not considered fit for their journals. Apart from this, there are relatively few journals based in the African continent that are devoted exclusively to papers on computing and ICT. It is in the light of the above that the African Journal of Computing & ICT is born for the purpose of publishing nontrivial relevant research results in the fields of computer science/engineering, information technology(IT) and allied fields. The journal welcomes papers from African scholars and also from non-africans whose papers address important issues that are relevant to Africa. Every submitted paper is reviewed by at least two appropriate referees for quality and accuracy. Two editions are to be published every year. Further information about the journal is available in the Instructions to Authors, Subscribers and Advertizers in the inside back cover. A case is made, in the present paper, for the exploration of the potentials of coding theory for African development.