Kenya's Deaf Cabbies Use Uber App to Compete

The taxi-like online company Uber has begun a first-of-its-kind African pilot project where deaf drivers in Nairobi use its app.   Driver Benard Mulama intently goes through his phone. For the past week he’s been getting familiar with the Uber App. Mulama, who is deaf, is in a pilot project encouraging the hearing impaired to use the smartphone app that connects riders to drivers. It's a collaboration between Uber and the Kenya National Association of the Deaf...

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