Author: Mkhokheli Ndebele

I can still remember the first touchscreen phone I ever properly used. I grew up in Soweto, South Africa. Both of my parents worked as security guards, so we did not have much. The phones I knew growing up were the old brick-style Nokia phones — devices for calls, SMSes and maybe a simple game if you were lucky. Then one day my father came home with a smartphone from work. Touchscreen phones were still new in South Africa, and to me it looked like something from another world. My father let me download a few games and play around…