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"Typically people who live in mud huts with thatched roofs – and uses a system called M-Pesa, run by Vodafone , to transfer money to their cell phones." People
by laserDinosaur 13y ago
"Typically people who live in mud huts with thatched roofs – and uses a system called M-Pesa, run by Vodafone , to transfer money to their cell phones."
People in mud huts have cell phones?
- marssaxman 13y agoThe phrase "mud huts" evokes a primitive pastoral lifestyle, but there are a lot of places where mud brick is simply a sensible building material. I have stayed in a "mud hut" in Africa which had running water and electricity; this was common to all the houses in the neighborhood. They were nice big places, plenty of air and light, with ordinary doors and furniture and whatnot, that just happened to be built out of great big slabs of mud. They build this way not because they lack more sophisticated technology, but because mud bricks are an effective, economical technology well suited to their environment.