Nigerian & African Academic Life

By the FRELIP Editorial Team Imported textbooks are expensive, often unavailable, and frequently disconnected from local contexts and curricula. Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching materials released under open licences that permit free use and adaptation — offer an alternative built for fit and affordability. This briefing explores the promise and the practical work of adapting OER textbooks for African curricula: how Creative Commons licensing makes legal reuse and localization possible, what “adaptation” actually involves beyond translation, and the quality-assurance and authorship questions that come with remixing open content. We will tie this to FRELIP’s role in helping educators discover, evaluate, and responsibly adapt openly licensed materials for their classrooms.