This picture shows an ambitious secretarial toddler, pencil behind ear, cheerfully wrestling with the keys of a typewriter, a piece of technology he struggles to master. The picture from the early 50s is contained in the book "ZIMBABWE EPIC", in a chapter called "The Western Impact". Behind him we see the wall of "Great Zimbabwe", erected some 900 years earlier, probably not appropriate for following generations because the place was abandoned as the centre of the Zimbabwe culture in the middle of the 15th century. Behind this wall we see wheels of modern time turning in full gear.
Today western impact does not mean wrestling with the keys of an antiquated typewriter anymore. Thinking "big" or thinking "small"...
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co-operation with 
partners in these 4
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introduces:
APPROPRIATE
TECHNOLOGY IN AFRICA
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