In 10 years, M-Pesa changed our economy and our lives. What next?

Many innocent words gets anglicised and become part of our everyday language. They shift from being company names to verbs. They include Xerox, Google and now M-Pesa. You have heard it, “you can also M-Pesa me.” Just google it, why not xerox (copy) the papers?

We do not need to go back to the origin of Mpesa. But rarely has such a simple innovation revolutionised the economy, the way we interact, think and live and within such a short period of time. What is paradoxical is that other phone companies in other countries were established much earlier than Safaricom but never came up with M-Pesa. Why?