First African-designed' smartphone and tablet

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A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have beenlaunched.

The products, designed by Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou, are manufactured in China.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20850778

I was gonna say "great, they're finally going to fully use their own resources to create fully homegrown products...but then i saw they are gonna be manufactured in China...

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

I remember reading and old pulp "ten minutes in the future" science ficiotn story were all the quality technology in that time was African and not Japanese.