Standard Bank Group Ltd. (SBK) hired Itumeleng Heymann to persuade her neighbors that for about $6 a month, their cash would be better off with Africa’s largest lender than in its current hiding place: under the bed. For millions of Africans, a simple Nokia mobile phone acts as a bank account, allowing them to …
Ms. Sophia Bekele DCA Registry Services, Kenya Mr. Neil Dundas Uniforum ZACR, South Africa Compare your Benefits: In my research since the .africa domain became official, I have been looking and comparing the various houses and their benefits towards the African context. I have looked at the publicly available information and drew up the …
If you type “mobile money” into Google you will be served reams of articles about its runaway success in Africa. That’s great PR for a continent used to bad press, but there is a problem. Mobile money has only really taken off in one country out of 55 on the continent. Read More