The story of Safaricom in Kenya took a defining leap in 2007 with the rollout of M-Pesa, an audacious mobile money experiment that many observers expected to fail. At a time when millions of Kenyans lacked formal bank accounts and global analysts doubted the practicality of phone based financial
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