Africa’s fintech future is being written now. At the 3i Africa Summit 2026, over 3,000 innovators, regulators, and entrepreneurs gathered in Accra to demand one thing: Africa must own its digital infrastructure. From stablecoins to cross‑border payments, the message was clear — prosperity depends on building systems that keep wealth in African hands. Discover how Ghana’s new generation of entrepreneurs, regulators, and engineers are reshaping the continent’s financial destiny

Ghana loses tens of millions of dollars every year by exporting raw shea nuts instead of processing them locally, and the price of shea nuts has risen by over 25% in the past eight years — squeezing local processors even further. This combination of lost value and rising costs makes the case for an immediate ban on raw exports urgent and undeniable.