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In this episode, Adrian breaks down one of the most important and least talked about stories in Ghana's growth right now: the relationship between diaspora remittances and Ghana's real estate boom.

In 2024, Ghana received close to $6.5 billion in remittances, almost four times the country's total foreign direct investment that same year. By 2025, that figure was reportedly approaching $7.8 billion. Ghana is now one of the largest remittance-receiving countries in sub-Saharan Africa, second only to Nigeria.

But this episode isn't just about the numbers. It's about where that money is actually going, and why

Key Topics:

1. Why diaspora money is increasingly flowing into land, homes, and property rather than everyday expenses
2. Why the United States is the single largest source of remittances into Ghana, and what that means for property demand
3. The neighbourhoods driving the boom: East Legon, East Legon Hills, Airport Residential Area, Airport Hills, Ridge, Tse Addo and Aburi
4. The growing ecosystem of agents, architects, project managers and interior designers built specifically to serve diaspora clients managing builds from abroad
5. The emotional pull behind the investment, legacy, generational wealth, cultural roots and "the motherland"
6. The lasting ripple effects of the Year of Return (2019) on relocations, property purchases and diaspora identity

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🎙 About the Podcast

The Sound of Accra Podcast was established six years ago by Adrian Daniels in January 2020, on the back of running networking events in Accra and launching a failed online platform for Ghanaian tourists, visitors and business people. The mission is to showcase Global Ghanaian Excellence by spotlighting top Ghanaian leaders, founders and executives from the Global Ghanaian Community.

The episode explores the parallels between Mahama and Nkrumah, highlighting similarities in their policies and ambitions. It delves into the themes of the 24-hour economy, self-reliance, national coordination, Pan-African gateway, and infrastructure-led growth, drawing comparisons between the two leaders.

Takeaways

• Parallels between Mahama and Nkrumah in policies and ambitions
• Similarities in economic and development strategies

Chapters

• 00:00 Exploring Parallels
• 07:12 Pan-African Gateway

In today's fifth episode of Fintech Fridays Special Edition with Binance Africa, we explore the role of crypto in Ghana's Economic Recovery.

A special thanks to our sponsors, Binance Africa, for supporting this episode.

In this instalment of our Fintech Friday series, we are joined by the insightful Yande Nomvete Operations Manager for Binance Africa. Together, we explore the transformative power of cryptocurrency amidst Ghana's economic challenges, such as the high devaluation of the Cedi and the difficulties faced by small to medium-sized businesses in accessing traditional bank services. Yande and Adrian shed light on:

- How cryptocurrency offers a middle ground for financial access, enhancing Ghana’s tourism economy through seamless transactions and potentially helping businesses navigate cross-border trade without cumbersome conversions.

-We discuss how initiatives like Binance Pay are pivotal in onboarding businesses to the crypto scene and enabling decentralized finance options.

-We explore educational resources and tools from Binance, aimed at empowering SMEs in Ghana to hedge against inflation and tap into global markets.

About Binance

Binance is the world's leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider with a financial product suite that includes the largest digital asset exchange by volume. Trusted by millions worldwide, the Binance platform is dedicated to increasing the freedom of money for users and features an unmatched portfolio of crypto products and offerings, including trading and finance, education, data and research, social good, investment and incubation, decentralization and infrastructure solutions, and more. For more information, visit: https://bit.ly/4gbOtZR

Disclaimer: For the avoidance of doubt, the use of the terminology of depositing or withdrawing does not mean that Binance receives, holds, or releases any fiat currency through its platform nor does it contemplate any deposit taking, remittances or similar activity by Binance.

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Cryptocurrency transactions are starting to pick up across Africa. In early 2021, you’ve may companies like Tesla have invested billions into Bitcoin. And more payment systems like Visa, PayPal and Mastercard are following suit. Music Artist Akon even has his very own cryptocurrency, Akoin, which is a cryptocurrency which is designed to be used in all 54 countries in Africa, now available on a few Crypto exchanges.

Meanwhile, more Ghanaians getting involved in the Cyptocurrency craze now sweeping Africa as they look for new ways to make an income, and there are an increasing number of exchanges and brokers being established for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. With Binance and Coinbase, two of the biggest crypto exchanges out there, being available in Ghana, this has now become a whole lot widespread, There are many other exchanges, including Ghanaian and African based ones including Bitpesa, eBitcoinics, Bundle Africa, Sikaplus, PayPlux and so many others. The next step is for Africa remittance platforms such as Chipper Cash App to integrate crypto into their strategy to stay relevant to the contemporary financial market.

Cryptocurrency is an encrypted digital currency built on blockchain technology, and decentralised and unregulated by Financial institutions and centrals banks.

Jack Dorsey met bitcoin business owners in Ghana in 2019 and plans to integrate bitcoin use on Twitter, and has already done with his other company Square, by integrating the ability to buy bitcoin on CashApp.

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