Cet article analyse les relations entre la présumée success story du Mozambique et la prolifération, ces dernières années, de la téléphonie mobile. Celle-ci est considérée ici comme un révélateur de la dynamique des transformations en cours dans le pays, en particulier les disparités croissantes et les mutations dans les modes d’accumulation et de redistribution de la richesse. En s’appuyant sur des recherches menées à Inhambane, dans le sud du Mozambique, il s’agit d’examiner quelques-unes des incidences des télécommunications sur la socialité et de démontrer que les pratiques de téléphonie mobile non seulement reflètent et reproduisent les hiérarchies sociales, mais participent également à la négociation des inégalités 1 .

What IWD [International Women's Day] is not:-IWD is not just about cloth -IWD is not an excuse for debauchery -IWD is not an invitation for women to disobey their husbands -IWD is not about getting drunk in bars -IWD is not a seizure of power by women. 1 This call to administrative order published in a government brochure suggests two distinct visions of the celebrations that accompany International Women's Day in Cameroon: one official, disciplined, moral and masculine; the other unofficial, undisciplined, immoral and feminine. 2 The same sense emerges from the celebrations themselves: in the morning, women dressed in wax print cloth designed and marketed by the government for the occasion parade in an organized manner before public officials, thereby expressing their respect for authority; in the afternoon and evening, these same women (re)appear in disorganized groups, dancing, drinking and shouting all over town. This contrast is well described by journalists of the Messager observing the 8 March celebrations in Douala:After the parade at the UDEAC site in Douala, while some women went with friends or in meetings, in order to wish a happy Women's Day, most women were returning home. Not that the day was over. 'We're going to rest and get prepared to attack the evening well,' says Emilie, who adds: 'We will end the evening at the Cabaret.' If during the day they all look serious, the masks will fall off in the night. At the Rue de la joie at Deido, young and mature women -in short, all categories -besieged the taverns. Beer bottles, juice and whiskey covered tables. 'DJ, play us the song.' '1 Official brochure, entitled 'XXVIIth edition of International Women's Day in Cameroon', distributed in the presidential grandstand and to media in Yaoundé during the 2012 IWD celebrations.