Africa's Payment Problem Isn't What You Think It Is

African cross-border payments fail not at the sending stage but at arrival—funds route through New York and London instead of continental rails, and stablecoins address currency depreciation but not last-mile delivery to local bank accounts and mobile wallets. The real infrastructure gap is interoperability between fragmented domestic payment systems and global rails, not adoption.

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