📅 Last updated: 08.11.2026 The phrase “Kigali smart city” gets thrown around in conference halls from Lagos to London, but few people can explain what it actually means on the ground in Rwanda’s capital. Kigali has spent more than a decade wiring itself into one of Africa’s most connected urban centres, and the results are … Read more
📅 Last updated: 29.10.2026 M-Pesa Kenya banking began as a modest pilot project in 2007, and within a decade it had rewired how millions of Kenyans save, send, borrow, and pay. Today the service processes more transactions than Western Union moves globally in a year, and it has pushed Kenya toward something close to universal … Read more
📅 Last updated: 20.10.2026 M-Pesa mobile money began on 6 March 2007, when Safaricom switched on a service that let Kenyans send cash by text message — a quiet experiment that would go on to move more money than many African banking sectors combined. Eighteen years later, the platform has reshaped how a country pays, … Read more
📅 Last updated: 18.10.2026 M-Pesa mobile money began in 2007 as a modest pilot by Safaricom in Kenya, and it has since grown into the world’s most studied model for branchless banking, moving billions of shillings a day and pulling millions of unbanked people into the formal financial system. What started as a way to … Read more