Sub-Saharan Africa has the pressing need to build capacity in the education of teachers, to ensure that they are properly qualified while also sustaining their professionalism throughout their careers. Literacy rates affect the student’s ability (in certain cases the teacher’s ability as well) to comprehend material and be successful at completing (or presenting) the course work. There is a growing imbalance between the output of trained teachers from institutions as the demands of primary school provision are expanded. 

These pressing problems require an approach that provides flexibility for the new teachers in terms of time and space, a formalized method to train them and assurance that the quality of teaching is improving on a sustained basis. The paper reviews issues and key elements related to mobile learning (m-learning) and how it is being or could be utilized in order to build capacity of educators in the context of sub-Saharan Africa.