Senegal: Wari's CEO Kabirou Mbodje On Why He Wants to Buy Tigo Senegal and How He's Creating an Open Access Financial Global Brand

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London — Digital transformation has even in Africa kicked over the whole deck of cards. Everyone wants to do everything and is trying to find where the high margin centre of gravity will end up. Nothing exemplifies the idea more of everything sold turns into air than Wari's desire to buy Tigo Senegal. Russell Southwood spoke recently at Afrobytes to Kabirou Mbodje, CEO, Wari about how his global ambitions and why he wants to buy Tigo Senegal.

Mbodjie was born in Lyon, France to Senegalese parents but holds dual French-Senegalese citizenship. Having got a degree in Telecoms Engineering in France and an MBA in the USA he returned to Senegal in the 1990s to launch a business focused on new technologies. In 2003, he created NetPay (which later became CallMoney), a payment solution based on mobile subscription.

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