Economy

Cash By Calls. Why Kenyans are banking on a mobile finance future.
Cash By Calls. Why Kenyans are banking on a mobile finance future.

Launched in Kenya in 2007, M-Pesa – ‘pesa’ means ‘money’ in Swahili – has radically transformed African personal finance.

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