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How is tech revolutionising Africa?

What can the West learn from the African Fintech revolution?

The rapid spread of the internet across the African continent has been heralded as a key driver of prosperity and a sign of the continent’s technological coming of age. Certainly Africa has nearly half of the world’s mobile money accounts. As the continent continues to have one of most developed start-up ecosystems, embracing Fintech - what can the West learn from the African tech revolution and what are some of the pitfalls it faces?

Join Zeinab Badawi and her panel of experts in Nairobi, Kenya to take questions from a local audience on whether technology is revolutionising Africa?

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27 minutes

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  • Sat 26 Mar 202219:32GMT
  • Sat 26 Mar 202220:32GMT
  • Sun 27 Mar 202211:32GMT

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