Afridigest Week in Review: South African sensors

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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 hope your week is off to a great start! Here’s some quick news:

• Since Week 33’s digest, I published 'Should African entrepreneurs target the few affluent or the many low-income consumers?' — a quick response to a Harvard Business Review article. The feedback here has been quite interesting with many agreeing and others disagreeing strongly. If you have any thoughts to share here, I’m very much interested.

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Week 34 2020