Mthunzi: African Fintech from the Machinery Room

Why it surfaced

Mthunzi Sabali writes from the overlap of backend engineering and economics, with reporting grounded in Nairobi and Malawi. The site’s strongest pieces treat mobile-money float, on-chain dollar transfers, and fertiliser logistics as physical operating problems—not just abstract fintech trends—and even its charts are drawn by hand in SVG.

A personal publication about African fintech, mobile-money infrastructure, stablecoins, currency logistics, and the systems behind everyday financial movement.