Summary: <p><a href="http://poptech.org/erik_hersman">Erik Hersman</a> asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-<span class="caps">PESA</span>, social networking like MXit and entrepreneurial spaces like Maker Faire Africa, Hersman sees innovation and entrepreneurship exploding within some of Africa’s—and the world’s—fastest growing economies.</p>
