{"id":113,"date":"2006-12-21T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/21\/wamco-distribution-centre-in-jos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T19:00:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:00:44","slug":"wamco-distribution-centre-in-jos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/21\/wamco-distribution-centre-in-jos\/","title":{"rendered":"WAMCO distribution centre in Jos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is mr. Dominic busy talking through his handset.<\/p>\n

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Business in Nigeria has changed a lot with the advent of the mobile phone. It has become much easier to arrange logistics and deal with customers. It comes at a price however. First, costs are very high for most people. Mr. Dominic spends between 10.00 – 15.000 nairas a month on mobile phone use (approx. 60 – 95 euros). One of his colleagues we spoke to – running a retail shop with many different customers – even claimed to pay up to 30.000 naira a month! And another cost is that while the mobile phone gives individual freedom to communicate and engage in business, it also places a heavy burden on ones shoulders, since family and friends are now constantly calling for help and support, even when far away. So mobile telephone technology in the west-African context seems to paradoxically promote individual possibilities and entrepreneurship and a discourse of modernity, while at the same time being a medium that provides possibilities for stronger reliance on ones social circle and strengthens tradition.<\/p>\n

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