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.
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