WRITING & PERSPECTIVES
Ideas from the work. Articles on fintech, financial inclusion, business and software engineering by Francis Mwakatumbula.
Microfinance 5 Aug 2024
How Wakandi Tanzania and TAMFI give microfinance institutions one integrated system, connected to NMB Bank, Airtel, Tigo, Vodacom and Sanlam loan insurance.
SACCOs 21 Aug 2023
A first-hand account of building digital insurance for SACCOs while moving between business analysis and engineering at Wakandi.
Business 8 Jan 2020
Finding your services, marketing them, building a portfolio, and the myths that stop people from starting a freelance business.
Leadership 18 Jun 2020
Practical habits for contributing clearly and confidently in corporate meetings.
USSD 3 Dec 2019
Automating USSD sessions with the Hover SDK in Flutter, the approach used to build the Kikoba wallet for Vikoba.
Engineering 1 Aug 2020
Step by step: automating daily database backups with the Laravel framework.
Engineering 10 Sept 2019
Serializing an HTML form to JSON with jQuery.