From state TV to TikTok: how phones rewired Cameroonian evenings...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français The rise of the mobile phone is no longer a local story — it’s a global one. Millions of people log onto digital platforms...
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From outrage to action: how Cameroonians mobilize online 📱🇨🇲
Cliquez ici pour lire en français These days, it takes only minutes for a local tragedy to ripple across all of Cameroon. A Facebook post, a TikTok video, a WhatsApp...
Beauty Tech : Electric trimmers are quietly reshaping grooming in...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français The manual razor no longer rules Cameroonian bathrooms. Thanks to a wave of technical upgrades, electric trimmers are gaining ground with everyday users and...
The end of the box TV: how flat screens rewired...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français It sat in the living room like a piece of family furniture. Heavy, bulky, sometimes draped with an embroidered cloth, the cathode-ray tube TV,...
From a tweet to a diplomatic row: the World Cup’s...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français The day after France beat Paraguay in the round of 16, the internet once again became the main stage for racism in international football....
Online petitions in Cameroon: does a click really shake the...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français In Cameroon, it now takes just a few clicks to back a cause, call out an injustice, or put pressure on the authorities. Once...
Meta’s smart glasses are a hit. They also have a...
Click here to read in English Thirteen years ago, a single pair of smart glasses was enough to spook an entire industry. Google Glass, backed by one of the most...
When Cute Kid Videos Become Cameroon’s Newest Scam Currency 🇨🇲🚨
Cliquez ici pour lire en français A video of a toddler crying, filmed without them ever knowing it, can spread across social networks in a matter of hours. What looks...
AI isn’t making you smarter. It might be doing the...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français It’s 11pm in Yaoundé. Brice, a computer science student, opens ChatGPT to finish a homework assignment he could have written himself. A few minutes...
« I’ve got nothing to hide » — and why that argument...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Here we are, fifth episode of this series. We’ve mapped out the companies collecting and reselling your data, the states surveilling you, the criminals...