Internet Access in Nigeria: Mobile Phones, Issues, and Millennials.
This paper interrogates mobile phones in the context of online patronage and ease of Internet access in Nigeria and adopts an exploratory and sociological research design wherein data was collected qualitatively through interviews and focus group discussion and analysed descriptively using the inter...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 10; no. 10; pp. 153 - 164 |
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Journal of Pan African Studies
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