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Africa’s electric promise

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By Tom R Courtright
| ips-journal.eu
Far from Tesla’s troublesome year on the stock exchange, electric vehicles (EVs) are making a splash – or, more literally, kicking up dust – in many African cities like Kampala, Uganda. As Constant, a boda boda (motorcycle taxi) rider, pulls up to me on the road, the only sounds his motorcycle makes are the running of the chain and the tread of the wheel.
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Apps Struggle in Kampala

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By Tom R Courtright
| Medium
By Kalungi James As boda bodas have taken over much of Uganda's roadways over the years, causing widespread concern several boda boda apps have emerged, aiming to corner a market on digital ride-hailing and provide a more convenient and safe alternative to traditional hailing methods.
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Uganda's Boda Bodas - Half a Century of Getting to Places, Madly

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By Tom R Courtright
| AllAfrica
50-odd years ago, Ali Mayende's innovation in the border town of Busia sparked a revolution that has become the lifeblood of East African public transportation. Ali Mayende has passed on. In the early 1970s or late 1960s, he tied a white handkerchief to his bicycle handlebars and began ferrying passengers from Busia, a small town on the edges of Eastern Uganda to the border.
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