I have seen the #iOSVsAndriod conversation and this reminds me of an encounter I had with a certain someone in Ghana, in relation to iPhone.
The person, who lives in Ghana and has to pull the hair in her nose to buy iPhones–unlike me who get the latest iPhones or Phones on upgrades or can pay as little as just 15 pounds a month for the latest phone if I want, passed a “shallow” comment about why someone like me should be using a small iPhone.
I looked at her in the face–all shocked, because of her stupidity. If I can afford over 2000 pounds iMac or 1500 MacBook, how much is the latest iPhone that if I really wanted it, I wouldn’t get it?
I am not a big phone person and therefore all the talk about the latest iPhones do not push me. I had an iPhone 5C–and when I was due for another phone (upgrade) not long ago, I asked my operator which was the last small iPhone made, and was told it was iPhone SE so I opted for that.
I, therefore, have two small iPhones, the 5C which I place local sim cards in when I travel abroad and the latest I took, SE–which contains my UK sim card.
This person saw her phone, which I have bought more than 5 of them as gifts for people as somewhat the defining factor of her status–and actually wondered why I was not using the latest/big iPhone.
It’s interesting how broke ass Ghanaians are obsessed with things they can barely afford. Let their phone screens break and it will take forever for them to fix because they can’t afford a new screen or can’t even find an authentic screen anywhere near them. Let their phones get lost, and they will be sliding into someone’s inbox to ask for a phone–ready to trade sex for one even.
Those who will get instant replacements via insurance when their phones get lost or are broken do not really care and do not make a big deal about phones.
When I used to work at the Luton Law Centre, there was a certain top Lawyer who did not have a cell phone–she said she did not have a need for it. She’s either at work or home where she has phone lines and therefore did not need a phone. Perhaps, it’s because of such people that we still have plenty pay phones around in the UK.
But in Ghana, mobile phones seem to define the ego of some people.
The shallowness of the third world country mindset is a disease. Today, all I see on my timeline is AndriodVsiOS.
When it comes to a mere iOS update, you cry–because of common data needed for it, which is unlimited for some of us for free at even McDonalds–and yet, you make the biggest noise about the phone in your hands.
A Ghanaian woman will be holding the latest phone but would be asking you for a loan, far below the value of her phone to pay her fees or rent.
If this is not the definition of stupidity; what else is?
If you hold a phone worth 500-1000 dollars and you do not have 20 times the value of the phone comfortably sitting in your savings account, then you need Obinim’s prayers.
Start talking to most Ghana-based woman and they will quickly ask you to buy them a mobile phone as if it’s the haemoglobin their blood needs. For all the years that I’ve been in the UK, I’ve never met a woman out here who has hammered on a mobile phone as a needed gift.
And at the end of the day, the Ghanaian will switch his or her data, the wheel on which most of these expensive phones run OFF–because he/she cannot afford to have it on all the time.

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