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FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction

Langley, Paul; Rodima-Taylor, Daivi

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Daivi Rodima-Taylor



Abstract

Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over the last decade or so, constituting novel ‘FinTech’ economies. Although FinTech is registering across critical social scientific research, insufficient dedicated attention has been paid to FinTech in Africa. Bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines and fields, this special issue of eight papers asks what is different about the forms that FinTech is taking in Africa, and considers how foregrounding developments on the continent might reshape social science research agendas and political conversations around FinTech globally. In this Introduction, we show how the papers make three main conceptual and analytical moves to attune research to the distinctive features of FinTech in Africa, thereby shifting the focus for research (1) from global financial inclusion agendas to colonial histories and presents, (2) from economic formalization to multiple modes of economization, and, (3) from techno-economic ecosystems to statecraft and international security.

Citation

Langley, P., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (2022). FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(4), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2092193

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 16, 2022
Online Publication Date Jun 29, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date Jun 21, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Cultural Economy
Print ISSN 1753-0350
Electronic ISSN 1753-0369
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 15
Issue 4
Pages 387-400
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2092193
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1201460

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