Africa’s Voices’ Director led a panel at The Hay Festival 2016 with Well Told Story‘s Rob Burnet and iamtheCODE founder Mariéme Jamme. When this century began, one per cent of Africans had mobile phone subscriptions. Only 15 years later, it’s 40 per cent. “Big changes in communications parallel big changes in society, in economics and in politics,” Sharath began, during a lively discussion on innovative uses of digital technologies across the continent.
