John James, a BBC multimedia journalist based in Abidjan (known as @ourmaninafrica on Twitter) posted a nice audio clip that he made at BarCamp Abidjan on July 25th. In it he briefly interviews a few of the organizers and attendees, and touches upon some of the challenges faced by web developers and internet users in general in West Africa. It seems that one of the reasons for countries like Côte d'Ivoire to catch up with the rest of the world in terms of internet technology and web innovation is the bad reputation they have because of the infamous internet scams that come from that region.

Listen to the rest of the discussion below and delve in to a linguistic melting pot of British English, West African English, and West African French. Also, as a reminder, you can upload mp3 files to Maneno to display as embedded soundclips like the one below.