South Africa, like many of its peers in the Global South, is awash in digital optimism. Coding bootcamps for youth, broadband projects spanning provinces, and classrooms equipped with sleek tablets.

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Today, African adult literacy rates are at about 67%, an 11% increase on the same figure at the turn of the millennium. But those gains aren’t guaranteed to stay in place, never mind improve, forever.

BENGALURU: Adult education in the form of informal and non-formal education has made a long evolutionary journey since Independence to help individuals and communities to acquire basic literacy and ...