Crypto, Digital Currencies or Mobile Money: What is the future of payments in Africa?

Crypto, Digital Currencies or Mobile Money: What is the future of payments in Africa?

Mobile money has often been touted as the greatest innovation in Africa’s financial space – and rightly so. Its introduction at the start of the new millennium reenergized economies reeling from the slow macroeconomic growth induced by the IMF-backed structural adjustment programs (SAPs) in the late noughties. With the ease of their mobile phones, large…