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• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I: Technology diffusion: the spread of mobile calling and internet
• Prologue (1986–2004)
• 1: Mobile voice calling booms (1993–2004)
• 2: Bandwidth as the digital economy’s fuel: getting sub-Saharan Africa connected (1991–2015)
• 3: Cheaper mobile internet and low-cost smartphones come together with apps sub-Saharan Africans want to use (2005–18)
• Part II: Technology influences: uses, behaviours and abuses
• 4: Mobile money: from transferring cash by SMS to a digital payments ecosystem (2000–20)
• 5: Sub-Saharan Africans start to live the digital life (2000–20)
• 6: Sprinkling on the magic dust: digital’s impact on development (1982–2020)
• 7: The ugly underbelly of the communications revolution: corruption, cronyism, regulation and government (1999–2020)
• Part III: Taking the long view: start-up innovation and complex behaviour change
• 8: Sub-Saharan African start-ups: getting beyond the hype to address deep market challenges (1995–2020)
• 9: Doing complexity: making sense of what has happened over thirty-five years
• Appendix A: Glossary
• Appendix B: List of those interviewed
• Select bibliography
• Index