Many Africans are now using phones and computers to give out and access information. And this means that Africans slowly are nearing equality.

The world should not be surprised that soon some African nations could reach to the status of some European countries.

Otherwise Africans before the invention of modern technologies were looked at as unequal. Obviously, our ancestors did not foresee the arrival of the information age!
If there is anything that has shown Americans and Europeans that they can easily be equal with Africans then it is the information age and the way rural Africa, aided by the ever enterprising Chinese, have embraced it. Some people in the USA like Bill Clinton boast they have never owned or used a mobile phone. But our elders deep in the villages of western Uganda, Luweero, Northern Uganda and Kiryandongo communicate with their people across the world on a mobile phone.

Yesterday my brother visited my Dad who works in Cairo, 900 miles away from Kampala and we were able to do a mini-video conference through Skype.

The people who have relatives living more than 7,000 miles away gives news about their families and communities faster than the people in towns can talk to their door neighbours!

Africans selling bananas (Matooke), fish, potatoes, are all united with prostitutes, politicians, governors and catwalk models through information technology.

Both members of opposition and the ruling governments may not see eye to eye but they are linked by the information technology. Africans are now capable of sharing issues with people staying and working in busy London, New York, Doha, and Guangzhou

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