Abraham Augustine is a Nigerian journalist and researcher studying digital economies in emerging markets in Africa and Europe. For TechCabal, he writes about African start-ups, the investors who back them, problems they run into, and the regulators they fight, collaborate, or collude with. He is also the creator of the blog Money Myths Africa and co-founder of trendsAf, a digital economy research collective that is collating and transforming data, academic research, and policy assessments into insights into how Africa’s digital economy interacts with physical and cultural systems.
Famous mobile payments technology like Kenya’s M-PESA has revolutionized economic development by giving people new tools to access financial resources. But other important aspects of financial inclusion are getting neglected due to the growing overreliance on digital markers of financial inclusion.
