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Originally Posted by fatbrett2
If you're making the argument that Africa isn't phenomenally poor, and that good cameras are as common there as the are in the US or western EU, you are out of your gourd.
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It is not what I'm saying... What I'm saying is that despite the poverty, or maybe a bit due to it too (since land phones never really found their way into homes...), the cellphone is probably the piece of modern equipment that is the most widespread in most African countries, with many more people owning one than other artifacts of the modern life like refrigerators, television, or even electricity (I personally know some people in Africa who own cellphones, without having access to any source of electricity near their homes... They have to walk sometimes several hours to the nearest village to get it charged when the battery is low...)
So, with the progressive replacement of the oldest models that is currently occurring, these people get access to cameras too. Of course, it's still very partial, and usually makes crappy pictures, but the use of cellphones to take pictures is beginning to become quite usual, especially among the young generations. You'll begin to notice this radical change rather quickly, with the development of Internet access and the people getting used to it.