This is how the last mile has so far been covered in Africa. The future is already here; but it’s about to be supercharged by a cable emerging from the sea in Mombasa, removing the need to rely on frustratingly slow and expensive satellite connections. And as it happens, Kenya will soon have no fewer than three fibre-optic submarine cables, all beaming traffic back and forth to the rest of the world at the speed of light. - Ben Turner