and Communications Technology (ICT) is a competent tool for its actualization. This no
doubt, relates to why UN incorporated the availability and use of ICT and its components as
an indicator for sustainable development (MDGs number eight). Hence, ICT compliancy is
demanded from all and sundry. The academic and research world is expected to grasp its
potentials for collation, preservation and dissemination of information. And this therefore
takes this descriptive paper to the light of IRs in Africa and their symbiotic relationship to
Africa’s attainment of MDGs by 2015.