When you stare at a number like KES 100 billion, it is easy to forget that behind it are real people, real livelihoods, and real decisions made every single day. That is the scale of Kenya’s gig economy today — and as I have written before, it is no longer a side

There is a line from this podcast session that has stayed with me since we recorded it earlier this week. Yannick Lefang was explaining why he was never in a hurry to build Kasi Insight fast. “Data is like wine,” he said. “The older it gets, the better, the more

Let me start with a number that should stop every policymaker, development economist, and digital finance practitioner in the region in their tracks: 8.6 per cent. That is the weighted-average cost of withdrawing cash from a mobile money account in Tanzania, expressed as a percentage of the transaction value. It