// Hacker Noon · 5 May 2026

Africa Isn't Catching Up to the West in Fintech. It Left a While Ago

The West assumes Africa is catching up in fintech. It isn't. Countries like Ghana and Nigeria built payment infrastructure from scratch with no legacy systems to protect, and the results now outperform what the UK and US built over decades. Ghana processed GH₵518 billion in mobile money in a single...

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