Michael Lawal: Remittance, Building Technology for Africa and Overcoming the Colonial Mindset

Michael Lawal is the CEO Of sendit.money, a social impact business focused on solving the pain of financial exclusion for Africans. Michael joins the Change Africa Podcast to discuss his entrepreneurial journey, philosophy on Africa's developmental lag, colonial programming, and overcoming fear. He tells his story of what inspired him to pursue this startup and the hurdles of being the renegade problem solver. Kojo and Michael segue from entrepreneurship to Africa. specifically how we can redefine colonial systems that have taken over the continent's operationalization and embrace locally made systems that work for us from our financial infrastructure, education and leadership. Michael gives his take on the phenomenon of colonial programming and how its crease is still evident in the functioning of Africa today, and how we could overcome it.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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