It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.
Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.