Afro-nerds This story in the MIT Technology Review is about Ghana and the rise of the "hacker culture" in that country. The link from News.com kind of promised more than what seemed to be there content-wise, but it's better than all the other shitty stories you get out of "Darkest Africa" [1]. I don't see anything in the story to indicate that Accra is a thriving tech hub, or frankly will be anytime soon, but the seeds are there. Though I do wonder about problems like corrosion in a tropical climate without air-conditioning. But it's not like you can't code using crappy a 486 running a *nix distribution. I'm on record as saying that I'm skeptical that Africans can be as good at math as Asians, but I have to also admit that a lot of programming doesn't require much math. And there is going to be a niche for people to take over India's low-end work once that nation starts to move toward more value-added tasks beyond refactoring, debugging & testing or doing Visual Basic!. [1] If there is one professional group that might avoid the AIDS epidemic in Africa, it will be programmers....