On a cool morning in West Africa, voters formed a snaking line outside a modest polling station. An elderly woman, wrapped in vibrant cloth, cast her ballot with a trembling hand as the rising sun illuminated the hopeful faces behind her. Such moments of quiet determination are becoming increasingly common across the continent. Yet, behind […]
In a bustling open-air market in Nairobi, a small business owner swipes her thumb across a smartphone screen. There’s no cash exchanged, no point-of-sale machine, just a ping confirming payment through mobile money. A generation ago, she might have been invisible to the formal banking system—one of millions operating in the shadows of the global […]