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Kenya has capital, but who gets access to it?
Banks lend to government. Pension funds buy T-bills. Lenders want title deeds.
What happens to the 25-year-old who's educated and ambitious but owns no land?
Your degree isn't collateral.
How do we finance people, not just assets?
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😅Made it to Venice 🇮🇹 (place considered a dream destination for millions of travelers around the world)
Every time was asked where I come from, and mentioned 🇹🇿
The reaction had been “Your country is paradise “
Apparently Tanzania is considered to be paradise.🙂
Dear all We qualify to be called Angels on earth!
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We're migrating @BlockFinax to @StellarOrg .
We have a big partnership coming up and need a few people to test our FX hedging protocol.
If you have experience in FX, derivatives, banking, or trade finance, we'd value your feedback.
Interested? Reply or DM me.
Kenya has a graveyard of apps built by founders who never learned distribution.
We learned to build, but not to sell, market, or get customers.
Now AI makes building easier than ever.
It’s time founders learned distribution. The next big advantage isn’t just what you build, but who you can get to use it.
Building payments in Africa teaches you quickly that the tech is the easy part.
Getting someone to trust you with their dollars and provide liquidity? That's the real job.
Audited books help. But what really moves capital is being able to see where the money goes and know it's coming back.
Trust is infrastructure too.
Capital follows legibility.
A lot of African builders don’t lack ambition or good ideas. They lack an understanding of how capital actually moves.
How institutions allocate money. How interest rates and monetary policy affect capital flows. How to build credit. Why audited financials matter. What makes a company legible to capital.
Had a very eye-opening conversation with a very smart lady about this. I think this is one of the biggest gaps among African builders.
Good day to debunk some misconceptions about how money actually works in the modern economy. Understanding how money is created changes how you see banks, debt, inflation, and the economy itself.
Link to the article by Bank of England:
bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/…
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Africa does not need intellectuals who simply translate Western thinking into African languages.
We need scholars who begin with African experiences, challenge inherited assumptions, and produce ideas capable of changing the material conditions of our people.
