Micropayments for news have failed everywhere. Can they succeed in Kenya?

It is a small and unglamorous bet. But it sits at the center of one of the most consequential questions facing journalism. Can micropayments build a sustainable financial foundation for news? And might Africa, constrained by lower incomes, expensive mobile data, and limited success with Western-style paywalls, be showing the rest of the world something it has yet to figure out ? Based on my conver