Afridigest Week in Review: Cash for customer acquisition
+~Roughly $40M raised in 9 deals +Data colonialism +Right way to build a product +Senegal's tech ecosystem +Layoffs at 54Gene and Alerzo? +Afridigest Français +Afridigest Fintech Review +More
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