phone the 1st smartphone wholly made in africa has enlisted some major backers south africa's nedbank vodacom and now retail supreme pick and pay have entered into distribution partnerships for the phone which aims to break china's iron hold on the market the dubai based american or peroration opened factories and kagawa gali rwanda and durban south africa just a few months ago. well africans pay a premium for a smartphone produced on the continent the $130.00 mera phone is the 1st smartphone to be wholly money factored in africa the main factory opened in kigali in october and the goal is to produce a 1000000 and a half smartphones for africa every year it uses the android operating system and many see it as fitting into rwanda's ambitious plan to transform itself into a nation of rising incomes through digitalisation the mara phone if it takes off could be a turning point for the whole continent he says something that makes which real to reassure the global market that you guys with can actually be a producer and what are you sure does the 1st thing that you have to foresee does the uniquen