Adeniyi Adebayo walked onto the Moonshot by TechCabal stage in Lagos with a clear message: Africa's digital economy cannot wait for solutions built elsewhere.
As Chief Executive of RideTech and Chief Business Officer at Yango Group, Adebayo spoke from real experience. Yango now operates across 15 African markets, and that footprint shapes how the company thinks about what it actually takes to grow on the continent. His remarks centered on three things: locally developed infrastructure, strategic partnerships, and fresh approaches to financing.
The push for African-led digital infrastructure is not new, but hearing it framed through the lens of a company already operating at Yango's scale gives the conversation a different weight. Building locally, finding the right partners, and rethinking how growth gets funded are the pillars Adebayo sees as essential to taking Africa's digital economy to its next level.
Whether the broader ecosystem is ready to move in that direction is the question worth sitting with.
Originally published by AllAfrica.