Samora Kariuki

Samora Kariuki brings an East African perspective to the increasingly global conversation around African fintech and financial infrastructure. Through Frontier Fintech, his analysis examines the businesses, institutions and market dynamics shaping banking and technology across emerging African markets. That perspective matters because the continent's fintech story is often told through a Nigerian lens, despite the very different innovations emerging from Kenya, East Africa and other markets. Kariuki belongs on the Borderless 100 because a genuinely borderless African ecosystem requires analysts who can see across national narratives. His work helps connect the dots between markets that are too often discussed separately.