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How Fintech in Africa today is blazing the trail in the tech world

 Technology has given us so much to exhibit and execute and the new world order is here to stay, from biological engineering to cyber security, having a synchronized, decentralized system of job execution to website and  software development. And with the web at our fingertips coupled with internet and connections across the globe , it is indeed "cloudy" with mind blowing discoveries.       The financial world has always been in existence right from the days of trade and barter , before monetary development and their values. As people's efforts needed to be rewarded and their labour paid for , so did the need for these "rewards " and labour payments. Herein lies the idea of what "money" is, that is ,anything that could be exchanged or traded which is legally accepted and acknowledged by (each parties ) all.      In many Africa cultures ,there are satisfying ways  to "get paid" for labour cost acceptable to parties involved in the exchange . I...

A historical review of slave trade in Africa

    African historiography has been considerably renewed during the past  three to four decades and despite the extreme diversity of internal sentiments pertaining to colonization , we still too often tend to generalize on just specific experience which is slave trade .            Colonization, an act of political and economic domination involving the control of a country and its people , it is also the action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of the area . Colonization not colonisation (biology) is a multifaceted term which could be economical, social , political and other associated term . Colonization of black nations stems from the need of the white man to meet its internal economic imbalance, satisfy increasing demand for colonial goods such as tobacco , rum and sugar , and ensure constant labour which is mostly unwillingly ensured by slaves .     Slave trades out of Africa represent one of t...