Making Sense of the Cellulant Brave Six loss
For Cellulant 15th January 2019, the unimaginable happened. On a day unlike any, we have ever experienced six brave souls lost their lives to terrorists’ bullets in the 14 Riverside…
The Hassle of Paying Bills in Africa & How Mula is Changing This
Every end month comes with the hassle of paying all your bills. The genesis is always, remembering which bills to pay before disconnection, the various account numbers, the actual amounts,…
A Glossary of Common Payment Terms in FinTech
(image source: https://www.cgap.org/) This is the 2nd and final part of our series on understanding the digital payments space within the Fintech ecosystem in Africa. In our first article, we…
The Lessons we have Learnt from the Tragedy; Human Resource & Talent
It is said that you don't know what you have until it is gone. Truth is you knew what you had you just thought you’d never lose it. The events…
We Owe it to Africa to Recover From The Terror Attack
15th January 2019 was one of the hardest days of our lives. We were going about our usual activities of trying to make Africa a better place. At around 3…
The Road to Recovery; A Strathmore University Work Experience Student at Cellulant
The road to recovery has been and still is treacherous. I wake up every day with raging battles in my mind. Battles against negative thoughts, attitudes, fear, and paranoia. As…
Cellulant’s Journey of Healing & Recovery; We are Here Now
“It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop” The afternoon of Tuesday 15th January 2019 will forever remain a day…
A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Payments and the FinTech Industry In Africa
Technology has completely disrupted the delivery of banking and financial services and with it, our expectations of what banking should be – an experience, not a branch we visit. 2018…
Mobile Money takes off in Nigeria; Introducing Tingg, a new way of banking & Paying
In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, the mobile money wave that has hit the continent with its genesis in East Africa, is finally causing huge ripples in the continents largest…
Neighborhood Banking in Nigeria and its role in Financial Inclusion
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country at 200 million with an unbanked population of 50M adults. The Nigerian banking system currently consists of 22 commercial banks, 942 micro-finance banks, 5…
How Cellulant Delivered Ecobank’s Mobile Banking App in just 86 days
It took us a team of 11 software engineers and 86 days to build a Pan-African payments network for Ecobank linking their customers across 33 African countries and delivering a…
Cellulant’s $105 million Valuation; Lessons from building a tech business
When I started Cellulant, I thought I would have retired by now- possibly working on my 3rd or 4th business. 15 years later- the journey continues. This has largely been…