Africa goes mobile
January 23, 2010, 1:39 pm
Posted by Joseph A. Komonchak
Abigail Frymann, in a recent article in The Tablet, has an interesting and hopeful article on the tremendous rise in the use of cellular telephones in Africa: from 54 million to 350 million between 2003 and 2008, to the point that more than a third of Africans now owns a mobile phone. A photo shows an African herdsman talking on his phone while surrounded by his cattle. The new technology is already transforming personal, social, economic and political realities on the continent.
That’s an interesting article, thank you for posting it. I keep checking Facebook to see if any of my old friends from Africa are there. No luck yet, but I think it’s only a matter of time before I find a few of them. The world’s getting smaller every day.