Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. "It was a really cool device," he recalls. He just had to connect up a cassette player for storage and a television set for a monitor, and he could start writing programs. But Boahen wasn't so impressed when he found out how the guts of his computer worked. "I learned how the central processing unit is constantly shuffling data back and forth. And I thought to myself, 'Man! It really has to work like crazy!"' He instinctively felt that computers needed a little more Africa' in their design, "something more distributed, more fluid and less rigid".
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