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Mobile phones : the new talking drums of everyday Africa.
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ISBN: 9956558532 9789956558537 9786613004888 9956579122 9956579149 9956615056 1283004887 9789956579143 9789956615056 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden African studies centre

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We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa. This volume ventures into such appropriation and mutu


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2012 Information and communications for development : maximizing mobile.
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ISBN: 0821389912 9786613910585 0821395874 1283598132 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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With some six billion mobile subscriptions now in use worldwide, around three-quarters of the world's inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone. Mobiles are arguably the most ubiquitous modern technology - in some developing countries, more people have access to a mobile phone than to clean water, a bank account or even electricity. Mobile communications now offer major opportunities to advance human development - from providing basic access to education or health information to making cash payments and stimulating citizen involvement in democratic processes. This 2012 edition of the World

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