Digital Culture: Post colonial Africa’s weapon for enhancing social justice

The 21st century has witnessed higher education shifting from the traditional interaction to then utilisation of digital tools, communication technologies as instructional tools giving birth to concepts like digital culture and digital literacy among others. Digital culture and digital literacy are concepts that merit scholarly attention examining whether they contribute to social justice in higher education (HE). The purpose of the paper is to examine the nuanced nexus between digital culture, digital literacy and social justice. The paper examines how digital culture promotes social justice in African universities through access, representation, participation, equality, and inclusiveness. The paper utilizes Amartya Sen's capability approach and John Rawls' theory of justice as equality as the anchor pins to understand the actions, HE digitally in promoting social justice. The study concluded that the implementation of digital culture is a daunting task, but HE in Africa is attempting to promote social justice in digital form. The complexity is influenced by numerous factors such as, capabilities, functioning's rurality, colonialism, and epistemicide, among others, which will be explored in the subsequent sections. Despite the subtle yet devastating consequences of social justice, it was concluded that digital literary and culture are currently essential in achieving social justice in HE. The paper recommended that governments should continue to promote theory and practice of social justice in the wider world by investing in higher education digitally.