| Sumario: | Digital information and communication technologies have transformed knowledge and technical know-how in the world. Thus, information and communication technologies can play a major role in improving the availability of African indigenous knowledge by enhancing its blending of modern scientific and technical knowledge. However, the perception of indigenous knowledge by past colonial rulers, missionaries, and Eurocentric intellectuals has created the impression that African indigenous knowledge is inferior, primitive, heathen, barbaric and simply not worthy of preserving. To change this perception, this paper proposes that academic libraries can use digital media to preserve and make indigenous knowledge visible so that the future generations may learn about it and therefore, be proud of their past. This paper is forthrightly part of a project where the author has used observations, interviews and a literature review to examine how academic libraries can use digital media to advance African indigenous knowledge delivery in academic libraries in Ghana.
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