MOBILE WARRIORS: Cellphone providers waiting for clients on the curb in Lagos, Nigeria. A lack of formal jobs in Zimbabwe has forced many young Zimbabweans like Mavhengere into finding alternative work, or moving to neighbouring South Africa in search of jobs.
HARARE: It's 1.55 pm, and Nigel Mavhengere's "street office" is set up: laptop, makeshift cardboard table and a portable 75-watt solar panel. He's selling pirated music and installing mobile phone applications, such as WhatsApp, for some of Zimbabwe’s 4.2 million smartphone users.
"Business is bad today," complains the 21-year old, who works on the pavement of a busy, vendor-strewn area in downtown Harare. "On a good day, I should have sold at least US$15 (RM55) worth of stuff by now."
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