Introduction
Part I Technology diffusion - The spread of mobile calling and internet
Prologue
1 Mobile voice calling booms
2 Bandwidth as the digital economy's fuel - getting Sub-Saharan Africa connected
3 Cheaper mobile internet and low-cost smartphones come together with apps Sub-Saharan Africans want to use
Part II Technology influences - Uses, behaviours and abuses
4 Mobile money - from transferring cash to a digital payments ecosystem
5 Sub-Saharan Africans start to live the digital life
6 Sprinkling on the magic dust - Digital's impact on development
7 The ugly underbelly of the communications revolutions - corruption, cronyism, regulation and government
Part III Taking the long view - Start-up innovation and complex behaviour change
8 Sub-Saharan African start-ups - getting beyond the hype to address deep market challenges
9 Doing complexity - Making sense of what has happened over 30 years
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Select bibliography
Appendix C: List of those interviewed