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The quandary within which Public Administration finds itself calls for academics and practitioners in the field to astutely apply their minds so as to provide an accurate description and analysis of the current state as well as predicting its future course. The five paradigms put forward by Nicholas Henry in 1975 provide a sound base on the evolutionary discussion of the emergence of Public Administration since Woodrow Wilson's seminal article 'The study of Administration' in 1887. More recently, the New Public Management and the governance paradigms have been suggested as more accurately explaining the state of the field. E-governance has also brought another dimension to the discourse. The introduction of Information Communication and Technologies (ICTs) has had an influence in both the structure and function of government. Notwithstanding the challenges faced in adopting ICTs in governance, there appea