In the latest episode of the ‘Pure Digital Passion’ podcast, we took a deep dive into the heart of fintech innovation in East Africa. The session, held at the buzzing SemaBox at Baraza Media Lab in Nairobi on the 5th of September 2023 brought together James Kabuthi from Visa East

During the U.S-Africa Business Forum, Visa announced a pledge to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to advance resilient, innovative, and inclusive economies across the continent. Visa’s expanded investments are a long-term commitment to Africa’s growth potential and will help enable greater access to digital payments

This is probably the best news in Kenya’s Internet space since the arrival of broadband! For the longest time, it has been largely a cumbersome and expensive process for Kenyan Internet users to buy products and services online. Usually, the process of doing so required you to have a bank