How big a change have cellphones made to Africa?
That is the question Paul Mason of the BBC tried to answer by visiting Kenya, “using a map of the country’s mobile phone networks as his guide”.
Africa is undergoing massive changes. From fundamental ones (access to better information, organization of protest movements to fight corrupted political systems, etc…) to more trivial things (“Masai husbands have discovered the secrets of the incoming calls list – and there’s been tears before bedtime”).
