- Days 1–2 · The rails and the room
- Days 3–4 · Inside a live ecosystem
- Day 5 · From curiosity to a map
AFRICA'S PREMIER FINTECH IMMERSION · NAIROBI
From Curiosity to Mastery.
Africa's fintech, learned from the inside.
Request the prospectus.DAYBREAK · THE THESIS
Africa is not adopting the future of finance. It is inventing it.
01 — Volume$2Tmobile money moved (2025)
02 — Reach1.1Bmobile-money accounts in Sub-Saharan Africa
03 — Horizon$65Bprojected Africa fintech revenue by 2030
These are not promising numbers. They are structural facts: the rails, the volumes, and the institutions of a continent that has already moved.
Ali Hussein Kassim
- Chairman, Association of FinTechs in Kenya
- VP Eastern Africa, Africa FinTech Network
- 87,000+ daily readers of #AliTalksTech
- structured and multi-tiered
- taught inside a live ecosystem
- expert-guided
- African protagonism
We teach the ecosystem, not the org chart.
Twenty-five years at the intersection of policy, technology and capital in Africa, advising regulators, building fintechs, and sitting on the boards that shape how the continent moves money.
THE CLIMB · THREE TIERS, ONE JOURNEY
The same individual, three different conversations. A first-time explorer enrols at Tier 1. By Tier 3, they sit at the table where the continent's rules are rewritten.
The three tiers
- Days 1–2 · The climb begins
- Days 3–4 · Operating inside the stack
- Day 5 plus retreat · Mastery in the field
- Day 1 · The frontier, from the inside
- Day 2 · Shaping the continent's rails
- Retreat · The room, and beyond
Not a reward. A living metaphor.
Stage Two is the Ol Pejeta Conservancy: 110,000 acres, four hours from Nairobi, based at Sweetwaters Serena Camp. Its own story, a sustainable ecosystem of interdependent stakeholders balancing commercial and ecological mandates under complex regulation, is the closest thing on the continent to the fintech ecosystem-building challenge itself. We do not go there to rest. We go there to see the system whole.
- 110,000 acres
- 4 hours from Nairobi
- Sweetwaters Serena Camp
Five layers, one stack. The Safari teaches the connections between them, not the layers in isolation.
Partners and the invitation
AlgeriaAngolaBeninBotswanaBurkina FasoBurundiCabo VerdeCameroonCentral African RepublicChadComorosRepublic of the CongoDemocratic Republic of the CongoCôte d'IvoireDjiboutiEgyptEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaGabonGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauKenyaLesothoLiberiaLibyaMadagascarMalawiMaliMauritaniaMauritiusMoroccoMozambiqueNamibiaNigerNigeriaRwandaSão Tomé and PríncipeSenegalSeychellesSierra LeoneSomaliaSouth AfricaSouth SudanSudanTanzaniaTogoTunisiaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe
Founding Category Partner: one partner per category, closed for the life of the programme.