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Company	Stage	Amount	Country	Lead investor	Announced
Sun King	Debt	USD 260 mn	Kenya	BeyondNetZero	Mar 2025
Gozem	Series B	USD 30 mn	Togo	Partech Africa	Jan 2025
LemFi	Series A	USD 53 mn	Nigeria	Highland Europe	Jan 2025
Naked Insurance	Series B	USD 38 mn	South Africa	IFC	Jan 2025
TymeBank	Series D	USD 250 mn	South Africa	Nubank	Dec 2024
Watu Credit	Debt	USD 60 mn	Kenya	1 investor, no lead disclosed	Sep 2024
BasiGo	Series A	USD 42 mn	Kenya	Africa50	Aug 2024
d.light	Debt	USD 176 mn	Kenya	African Frontier Capital	Jul 2024

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Analysis 9 Sep 2026 ·9 min read

The eNaira Was Never Going to Work, and Ghana Should Not Repeat Its Mistakes

Less than 0.5 percent of Nigerians had used the eNaira by late 2023. By 2025, approximately 13 million wallets had been issued and 98.5 percent had never been used, according to IMF research. The eNaira in circulation represented approximately 0.37 percent of total Nigerian currency, unchanged between early 2024 and early 2025. Ghana is now weighing whether to proceed with a full retail eCedi launch. We argue here that the eNaira's failure was not an execution problem. It was a product problem. Ghana should take the warning seriously.

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Analysis · 2 Sep 2026