ABSTRACT
It is scenes like this one that characterize everyday life experiences of a great number of young adults in Kenya today. Almost all of them usually own at least one mobile phone, often use more than one SIM-card in order to benefit from different tariffs, and many of them even make use of a mobile internet connection. While Kenya certainly belongs to the countries with the highest distribution of smart phones in Africa – with numbers increasing rapidly – scenes such as the one described above are certainly not restricted to those countries but are characteristic of the huge importance mobile phones have gained in many African countries within not much more than a decade.
