Afridigest Week in Review: Digitizing traditional trade

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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, friends! Happy new week and happy new month. 🎈 The most clicked link last week was Nathan Baschez’s 'Finding power: How to do market analysis'

Apologies for overpromising: I wasn’t able to finalize the discussion with Edmund Olotu over the weekend, and pardon me in advance if it’s published at a random time this week. In any case, it’s a high priority on my end.

If you’re new, welcome 🙌🏽 — you’ll receive a weekly digest like this on Mondays usually and, sometimes (but not always), an original essay/article on Saturdays. For past essays and digests, visit the archive.

(And for my writing, podcasting, video hosting, event planning, and other creator friends who are very regularly starting to seek links to their work in this newsletter — I’m more than happy to share quality content, of course, but at the same time, I’m actively s…