Drawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.

Computerization as a political process, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Joel Samoff
African bureaucracy and the computer metaphor, Bruce Berman
foreign assistance agencies as advocates and innovators, John Daly
centralized planning for microcomputer adoption and use - the experience of Tanzania, S. Grant Lewis
the emergence of new social forms in the workplace - computer contracts in Kenya and Ivory Coast, Bennetta Jules-Rosette
recognizing the assumptions in microcomputer use for development planning, Craig Calhoun, Pamela deLargy
microcomputer adoption and the rise of a computer elite, S. Grant Lewis.