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What if the informal sector 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥, just misrecognized by frameworks too narrow to see African ingenuity for what it is? What we often label as marginal, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, is in fact sustaining families, funding education, and powering community economies without institutional scaffolding. The question, he challenged, is not how to scale these models into formal corporate replicas, but how to 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲. This is where African philanthropy must locate itself; not outside these systems offering support, but inside them, 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬, 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. That, he argued, is when we begin to truly realize 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐲, Dr. Tendai Murisa of SIVIO Institute during Day Two of the 9th East Africa Philanthropy Conference in Kigali. 🎥𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:

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