How cheap Chinese phones catapulted Kenya into the global digital economy
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Kenya medical training college students use their mobile phones to take pictures of doctors chanting as they make their way to the health ministry headquarters protesting with placards to demand better pay and working conditions in the capital, Nairobi on April 16, 2024. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP) (Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)
When I first embarked on the project to write about the encounters between Chinese digital capital and Nairobi’s booming innovation scene, I imagined myself rubbing shoulders with software developers, venture...