Voice of FinTech Africa Series with Patrick Awori: Powering e-commerce in Africa with Flutterwave's Elizaphan Mouko

In this episode, Patrick Awori interviews Elizaphan Mouko, Flutterwave’s East Africa Business Head, about their strategy for the region and why supporting Africa’s small businesses is an important pillar for their organization and economic development in general. In addition, we spoke in detail about Flutterwave’s comprehensive service offering and their simple onboarding process.

Show Notes

Africa’s FinTech infrastructure companies are radically transforming the technology and financial services industry with the help of APIs that enable virtually any software company to offer financial products directly to their end customers. Unregulated startups offering financial products through APIs and bank partnerships are well-positioned to take advantage of these trends. Thousands of Small Business Enterprises are prevailing as winners, too, as their barriers to entry are eliminated by these companies’ plug-and-play business intelligence and payments solutions.

In this episode, we interview Elizaphan Mouko, Flutterwave’s East Africa Business Head, about their strategy for the region and why supporting Africa’s small businesses is an important pillar for their organization and economic development in general. We spoke in detail about Flutterwave’s comprehensive service offering and their simple onboarding process. We also discuss Africa’s current VC funding boom and why- according to Eli,  “We are just getting started.” Finally, we conclude that Africa’s challenges are significant and that we can only tackle them if we work together. 

Elizaphan quotes Isaac Newton’s famous saying, “We can see further by standing on the shoulders of giants,” to stress the importance of ecosystem thinking in solving Africa’s fintech challenges.

We can see further by standing on the shoulders of giants, Isaac Newton

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