Africa’s tin-can version of Twitter has it right
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/paulmcnally/2011/01/26/africa’s-tin-can-version-of-twitter-has-it-right
Journalist Ezra Sibanda sits in London with lists of Zimbabwean cellphone numbers. These are his notes for his radio show which he broadcasts to Zimbabwe via short wave (and the internet). From London’s East End he draws a massive rural listenership by dragging a finger down his list of 45 000 numbers and calling Zimbabweans at random.