How Mobile Money Changed My Grandmother
Na Neema Kessy · 28 Juni 2026
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Last month her phone screen cracked, and there was a family crisis about replacing it that involved four phone calls and a formal negotiation. The new phone is a smartphone. She uses exactly one app plus the dialer, and she has already asked me, twice, whether it is true that the phone can show her the price of maize in Arusha. It can. Next month, I suspect, she will be arbitraging.
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