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30. Monica Mark, “Africa’s super-rich put their foot down and leave the poor in their wake,” Guardian, March 23, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/23/africa-super-richluxury-cars. 31. “Payments and Money Transfer Behavior of Sub-Saharan Africans,” Gallup, page 45-46, Figure 31 and 32, June 2012, http://www.gallup.com/poll/155132/Payments-Money-TransferBehavior-Sub-Saharan-Africans.aspx. 32. Duncan Alfreds, “RIM Eyes BlackBerry Africa Growth,” News24, September 29, 2011, http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/RIM-eyes-BlackBerry-Africa-growth-20110929.

34. Steve Song, “Will the Real Mobile Impact Please Stand Up,” January 4, 2011, http://manypossibilities.net/2011/01/will-the-real-mobile-impact-please-stand-up/. 35. Julien Clémençot and Olivier Milland, “Africa: Fast Internet Is Coming,” Africa Report, February 2, 2012, http://www.theafricareport.com/index.php/2012020250180648/news-analysis/africa-fast-internet-is-coming-50180648.html. 36. “Kenya to Scale-up Transformative ICT Applications,” World Bank, March 29, 2012, http:// www.worldbank.org/en/news/2012/03/29/kenya-to-scale-up-ict-applications. 37. iHub, http://www.ihub.co.ke/pages/about.php. 38. Sam DuPont, program officer, Internet Freedom, Freedom House, interview with author, June 7, 2012. 39. “Reports from Sudan: Sudan Radio Service’s Use of Mobile,” MobileActive.org, http://www. mobileactive.org/reports-sudan-how-sudan-radio-service-uses-mobile.

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33. Rebecca Wanjiku, “RIM Seeks New Markets in Africa,” PC World, March 24, 2012, http:// www.pcworld.com/article/252506/rim_seeks_new_markets_in_africa.html.

40. Severino and Ray, page 100. 41. “VOA Launches Citizen Journalism Project in Congo,” Voice of America, October 11, 2011, http://www.bbg.gov/press-release/voa-launches-citizen-journalism-project-in-congo/. 42. Steven Strasser, “Registering Reporters: How Licensing of Journalists Threatens Independent Media,” Center for International Media Assistance, November 23, 2010, page 10, http://cima. ned.org/publications/research-reports/registering-reporters-how-licensing-journalists-threatens-independent. 43. Errol Barnett, “How I Navigated Kenya Using Twitter,” CNN, June 20, 2012, http://edition. cnn.com/2012/06/15/world/africa/kenya-twitter-experiment/index.html.

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