In Nigeria, Why Isn’t Broadband Everywhere?

In Nigeria, Why Isn’t Broadband Everywhere?

Under the shade of a cocoa tree outside the hamlet of Atan, near Ibadan, Nigeria, Bolaji Adeniyi holds court in a tie-dyed T-shirt. “In Nigeria we see farms as father’s work,” he says. Adeniyi’s father taught him to farm with a hoe and a machete, which he calls a cutlass. These days, he says, farming in Nigeria can look quite different, depending on whether the farmer has access to the Internet or not.Not far away, farmers are using drones to ma…