In “Mobile Telephony: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunities for Socio-Economic Transformation in Nigeria” (a book which I blogged about last year), Christiana Charles-Iyoha sheds some fascinating light on the barriers to mobile ownership among Nigerian market traders. Erratic power supply, and difficulty charging, came top with a staggering 87%. Users in many African countries – and … Continue reading The charging challenge and the entrepreneur
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Stranger in their midst
From a handwritten note – quite literally on the back of an envelope – from my university anthropology days. It reads: The reader must imagine to himself the privilege of making contact with primitive societies which were more or less intact and had never been studied seriously. Just how recently – as luck would have … Continue reading Stranger in their midst