The impact of the mobile phone on Africa has been nothing sort of extraordinary. Over the past 15 years, the number of mobile connections has grown by 44% per year and today there are more subscribers in Africa than in Europe and the U.S. combined. Now contrast this picture with the one described by…

The Cold War derives its name from the fact that there was no large scale fighting between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. What actually happened was an exercise in game theory, where both nations were forced to recognize that advantage could not be gained through the use of nuclear weapons. This is…