Smartphone poised for bigger things in Africa

There have been arguments and counter-arguments on how industrial revolution missed Africa and how the continent can create its own industrial revolution. As the pontification goes on, a tech revolution is unfolding before our very eyes equivalent of the industrial revolution of our time, with Africa perched at the top.

Globally and by extension in Africa, technology has seen industrial and ever changing human behavior overwhelmingly transformed with the advent of the closely-connected digitized world. Enter the smartphone, enabled by mobile internet and social networks coupled with behaviors of generational cohorts like the Generation X'ers, Y'ers and Z; never has a geographical region been so profoundly affected by a device than in Africa.