Oreoluwa Adeyemo wrestles Africa’s cross-border payments puzzle

Oreoluwa Adeyemo wrestles Africa’s cross-border payments puzzle

Picture a ten-year-old boy, perched at a wooden desk, pencil in hand, carefully tallying figures from his father’s accounting books, a faint smile on his face.  He imagines himself one day becoming an accountant like his dad or teaching finance at a prestigious university like Harvard. Fast forward to 2025, and that boy, now a man, is a tech founder instead. He sits across from me on a virtual call, saying matter-of-factly that his goal is to en…