RT @MasukuAndile: Ah, @Tayo_Akinyemi. Honoured to be part of your final episode! Thanks for the chance to reflect openly on matters so cl….

@MasukuAndile I wrote a bit about the 'whys' and 'what's next on the substack:

Goodbye (for now), Trajectory Africa! In this postscript video pod, @MasukuAndile of @africaroundup fame and I spill some lukewarm origin story tea about the role ATRU almost played but didn't, how we've evolved, and what's next. Press play one last time:

RT @afrobility: The time has come. Sharing our final Afrobility episode here.

Think you can build digital commerce businesses in Africa without assets? Think again. Tune in to hear why @faithmight COO of @LoftyIncVC thinks that debt financing is the missing piece for asset heavy success.

RT @skweird: Why @chowdeck acquired @useMiraHQ, in three slides

In the final episode of The Trajectory Africa’s digital commerce & logistics series, Nick Joshi, CEO of Leta talks about taking an AI-powered, tech-first approach to building Africa’s logistics OS. Listen here:

RT @margentambi: Over the last decade, fintech has been the golden child of investment opportunities in Africa. But the roots of its story….

RT @margentambi: We wrote this piece to support our (the ecosystem’s) contextual understanding of where financial services was prior to the….

RT @margentambi: 12. If you’ve made it this far, thanks for leaning in. We’ve traced a long arc, from barter trade to grain banks to bankin….

RT @margentambi: 11.🚩 But by the end of the decade, a digital divide had formed:.- A few urban banks were connected and experimenting with….

RT @margentambi: 10. 🏗️ By 2000, infrastructure built or being leveraged included:.- Core banking software, like Oracle (Flexcube).- Automa….

RT @margentambi: 9. In response, the sector was liberalized. Private and foreign banks re-entered, spurring innovation. These reforms bro….

RT @margentambi: 8. Additionally, national development banks and global institutions like the African Development Bank and World Bank finan….

RT @margentambi: 7. Post-independence, African nations reformed financial systems inherited from colonial rule. States saw banks as vehicl….

RT @margentambi: 6. Nigeria. Unlike settler colonies where banking was tightly controlled to protect white interests, Nigeria had fewer rac….

RT @margentambi: 5. With colonization came financial systems built to serve imperial interests. 🏗️ The infrastructure:.- A thin but delibe….

RT @margentambi: 4. Shortly thereafter, Europeans scrambled for territorial control of the continent to secure raw materials and new market….

RT @margentambi: 3. Decades later, the Cape became a permanent settlement. And in 1793, the first imperial bank on the continent, Lombard….

RT @margentambi: 2. Trade took a dark turn, hampering the continents economic trajectory. Slavery had long existed in various forms. But a….