What when Steemit hits African countries?

A few years ago in 2007 I traveled trough Africa for a project, from East to West Africa. A very inspiring journey with a lot of encounters with beautiful people. During this trip I had the duty to maintain a live website with pictures and videos of our tour.
So one of my main duties was to find wifi spots in the most impossible places.
Five hours for a 10mb video, pfuhh, those were the times ;).
And imagine, in 2007 Youtube was only one year old, damn the world is changing fast!

Although my last trip was in 2007, I was fairly impressed by the use of technology in even the most remote places in Africa. Every person was at least owning one mobile phone.
From what I see from current documentaries, most of the Africans are not behind when it comes to smart-phones either.

In some cases Africans are even in front of the techno-developments. They adapt technology in a different way than we do. They also skip some developments that we have had.
For example most of the people never owned a pc in their home, but do make a direct transition to internet trough mobile devices.
Since 2007 some African countries like Kenia are using M-Pesa. A digital currency that is being used trough mobile phones. They directly exchange value trough sms and are doing this now for quite some time.
When connections are made to their current systems, African countries can be big users of crypto-currencies, it's a ideal fit. Check out this movie on Bitcoin in Africa:

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 M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mobile phone-based money transfer, financing and microfinancing service, launched in 2007 by Vodafone for Safaricom and Vodacom, the largest mobile network operators inKenya and Tanzania.[1] It has since expanded to Afghanistan, South Africa, India and in 2014 to Romania and in 2015 to Albania. M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdraw, transfer money and pay for goods and services (Lipa na M-Pesa) easily with a mobile device.[2]The service allows users to deposit money into an account stored on their cell phones, to send balances using PIN-secured SMS text messages to other users, including sellers of goods and services, and to redeem deposits for regular money. Users are charged a small fee for sending and withdrawing money using the service.[3] M-Pesa is a branchless banking service; M-Pesa customers can deposit and withdraw money from a network of agents that includes airtime resellers and retail outlets acting as banking agents.M-Pesa has spread quickly, and by 2010 had become the most successful mobile-phone-based financial service in the developing world.[4] By 2012, a stock of about 17 million M-Pesa accounts had been registered in Kenya.[1]The service has been lauded for giving millions of people access to the formal financial system and for reducing crime in an otherwise largely cash-based society. 

Good read: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-and-m-pesa-why-money-in-kenya-has-gone-digital/

From what I see from the Steemit stories till now, most of the Steemians are Western people. Off course it's nice to receive a couple of hundreds bucks for a post, but imagine what it means for people that have a monthly salary of 50$ or even less. We are sitting on something than can change the lives of a lot of people. 

What will these new crypto accelerated platforms do to the distribution of wealth around the world?
Will people with low-salaries and poor wealth get acces to the wealth that is being create on platforms like steemit?

Let the first African Steemits stream and Steem them up.
Inspire your friends in area's where it's not as easy to live, send them some Steem.

Some warm video from our trip in 2007:

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