Whenever we read about those things mobile, it’s always country (USA and China) or region (Europe or Central & South America). Unfortunately, when the conversation talks about Africa, it is like the continent is treated like a country, it some region so far removed from normalcy that what happens in mobile is novel. Thankfully, not every perspective is like that. Thankfully, we get solid pieces like this:

…Context is important. In the 1980s and ’90s, computer and communications technology took hold in the West. But in Africa, if you ran a business, say in Kenya’s cities or up-country, you were hard pressed to communicate efficiently with your suppliers. Lag time between customer demand and inventory levels was legendary. You could show up at one auto store to find that the owner had a mountain of supplies that would sit gathering dust for the next 10 years. Or you could show up at another auto store just 10 miles away and find that all its inventory had been snapped up and nothing was coming in for another two months…

Read the rest of The Mobile Continent at the Stanford Review

What games your views of mobile, and is it grounded in reality, or perspectives too broad to be applicable?