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From village roots in East Africa

"Faith kills Fear Investment" - a new trend in village-based micro-credit (above); Near-universal mobile telephones (right); at the pump (below left); A solar panel recharges mobile phones in Zambia's Gorela village (below right).

Across Africa, low-key technology is propelling the continent into the 22nd Century


Malawi: Africa for Beginners

Nyawu Dancer / On Lake Malawi

On a long, hot stretch of road I’d begun to nod off, when the bus stopped abruptly. A pair of phantasmagorical figures, masked and costumed in feathers, technicolour rags and war-paint were prancing at the roadside, strolling players in search of a gig.


 

 
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