Afridigest Week in Review: Mobile money meets its match

+An Egyptian mega-round +Digitizing informal retail +Mobile money reads +Leapfrogging 'leapfrogging' +Gamification +Future of work & web 3.0

The Afridigest Week in Review is a must-read weekly recap for Africa-focused founders, executives, and investors, as well as interested observers.

Welcome back! I didn’t publish an essay last week but I did submit a letter to the editor that was published by the Financial Times. (If you don’t have an FT subscription, you can also read it here.)

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Week 36 2021