In 1989 a Cameroonian banker submitted a doctoral thesis in Bordeaux arguing that Africa's informal economy was not a failure but a financial revolution waiting for its institution. He then spent 36 years building the institution. Last week it opened in one of the least-banked countries on earth.
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