Struggles of the Modern Chama Picture this scenario, The last Saturday of the month. A group of twelve women—nurses, teachers, small business owners—crowd into a member’s living room in Kawangware. Notebooks sprawl across the coffee table. A worn ledger passes from hand to hand. Cash changes hands, but the tension is palpable. Sarah forgot her…
Think about the last time you sent money on M-Pesa. That simple act—tapping your screen, entering a PIN, hitting send—felt routine, right? What you didn’t see was the quiet revolution happening in the background. A digital guardian, learning and adapting in real-time, ensuring that your money moved not just quickly, but safely. This is the…
There’s a quiet revolution happening in finance—a shift that’s rewriting the rules of how money moves, grows, and belongs. It’s called Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, and it’s building a world where people no longer need to trust banks, brokers, or bureaucracies to handle their wealth.Instead, they trust code—open, verifiable, and borderless. DeFi is more than…
Nairobi, Kenya – A great development for African agricultural commerce, Hygrotech East Africa has successfully completed a $2.3 million cross-border trade transaction for seed and fertilizer inputs using the Agridex blockchain platform. This landmark deal, involving multiple parties across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, represents the largest agricultural commodity transaction ever settled on a blockchain platform in…
London, UK – Digital remittance giant Zepz has launched SendWave Stablecoin Wallet, a groundbreaking mobile application that enables instant, low-cost cross-border payments across Africa using USDC and other major stablecoins. The launch represents the most significant entry of a traditional fintech player into Africa’s digital asset space and could potentially disrupt the continent’s $100 billion remittance…
