This book explores how "first world" cellphone technology has seamlessly and positively integrated with "third world" conditions and lives. It raises the question of whether the humble mobile phone has suceeded in fulfilling the DRC's destiny to be a unified state.

In pictures taken by some of the world's finest photographers, the rich diversity of lives lived in the fascinating, baffling heart of Africa is explored. The photographers are Greg Marinovich, Leonie Marinovich, Gary Knight, Pieter Hugo, Muntu Vilakazi, Victor matom and Marcus Bleasdale.