[Capital FM] Allow me to take you back to a time when trade was as much about relationships as it was about goods. In Africa, commerce was built on the foundation of barter trade; a system that, while revolutionary for its time, was not without its flaws. Picture a bustling marketplace in 19th-century Kenya, where a fisherman from the Coast exchanged his fresh catch for grains from the hinterlands, while a weaver traded baskets for livestock. These transactions were essential, but they were also limiting. The absence
