M-Pesa has nothing to do with cryptos and bitcoin, and the whole " Countries in Africa adopting cryptos" is such an overhyped theme people are getting bored of it.
It's been years since everybody was claiming each damn 3 world country be it from Asia or Africa, from Philipinne to Zimbabwe, Kenya to Vietnam will bring the new revolution and when
articles like this came out some are still surprised about how reality, not hype works.
For god's sake, there are countries there where the illiteracy rate is above 60%!!! , we should talk about adopting an ABC not BTC.
I'm all for promoting the use of Bitcoin in developing countries too, and where there are suitable as alternatives, all the better, but they (Bitcoin and others or say blockchain) are not the all-encompassing solution.
Myself, coming from a state where my people only just broke the 50% literacy rate in 2017, I can't agree more that we still need to tackle the roots of whatever issues are facing these economies first. Blockchain is not the answer to everything, and shouldn't blind us to root problems of education and other inequalities.