What the railway was to Victorian England, the mobile networks are to Africa…

“Already there is an African app out of the starting blocks for almost everything: herding cattle in Kenya (i-Cow), private security in Ghana (hei julor!), remotely monitoring patients in Zimbabwe (Econet) and in Uganda, an Uber-like service (Yoza) connecting dirty laundry to mobile washerwomen.”

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