Afridigest Week in Review: Africa mints its third privately held unicorn

+Piloting at scale +A deal deluge +An under-the-radar multi-billion dollar acquisition +Pan-African expansion +Crypto adoption in Africa + Netflix strategy +Five $1B African tech companies

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Week 34 2021