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The seedier side of tech

Often considered bottom of the pile, Africans are finding their own ways to make money from data.

03 November 2020

There’s a scene in the film Sakawa where an American man thinks he’s having phone sex with a young women he met on a dating site.

The audience are in on the joke. He’s actually being seduced by a man from a slum in Accra, who’s using a voice-changing app to make his voice sound feminine. It’s half funny and half tragic, with neither party getting what they want and expect from the deal.

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