1 Cell Phones or Computers? Brief Notes on Some Social Aspects of ICTs Use in Africa.

This paper examines the specific appropriation and adoption process of cell phones and computers in the African context. It shows that there is no need to prefer cell phones over computers and that only a superficial observation can let us think that computer adoption is not on its way in Africa. Indeed Africans are active recipient communities and are inventing multiple ways to cope with the introduction of new ICTs in their societies and to transform the use of computers and cell phones so that they can fit their own expectations