Africa: Once Glorious Postal Services · Global Voices
Alice Backer

Africa 2.0  reflects on the future of African postal services (Fr): “Under other skies, postal companies occupy a choice spot in the rise of electronic commerce … In Africa, most postal services are sluggishly lagging behind. They've been destabilized by new technologies, the loss of monopoly… competition from … DHL, Chronopost … and Western Union for money transfers. We need to react and competently so, to reconquer a glorious past.”