Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle.
Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well documented is how young people in Africa are using mobile phones to navigate the interplay between personal hopes, social expectations...
| Published in: | Geographical Journal Vol. 186; no. 4; pp. 362 - 375 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2020
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