An interactive geographic platform linking African literature to living business cases — making the continent's cultural operating system legible to investors, diaspora communities, and educators.
M-PESA did not invent mobile payments. It formalized the trust networks Ngugi wa Thiong'o documented for fifty years. The engineers read the culture before they wrote the code. Roots and Routes surfaces those connections — across ten countries, twenty books, ten business cases.
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