IF you want to get a real sense of a country’s
cultural pulse, listen to the slang. It’s one of the best gauges of what a
culture thinks about itself, and how it perceives the world.
Mobile technology and the Internet have taken Africa by
storm in the past decade, and in the next two years, smartphones are expected
to outsell feature phones on the continent.
Africa’s connections with the world are also mediated by
its diaspora - in 2012, the amount of money sent as remittances by Africans
abroad surpassed
that of official development aid.
