Ebook: Mobile secrets: youth, intimacy, and the politics of pretense in Mozambique

Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecommunication would enhance everything from entrepreneurialism to democratisation to service delivery, ushering in socio-economic development. Here, Julie Soleil Archambault offers a complete rethinking of how we understand uncertainty, truth and ignorance by revealing how better access to information may in fact be anything but desirable.