Guinea-Bissau: On the increasing popularity of mobile phones

Jorge Rosmaninho writes at the Lusophone online magazine O Patifundio [pt] about the mobile phone fever in Guinea-Bissau. “There is not a single teacher who would not complain that, at the beginning of the lessons, students waste the first ten minutes arguing over who would have the right to charge their mobile phone first in the classroom's only plug”.

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