Uber came to Africa to disrupt transport. Then Africa changed Uber.
TechCabal | 04.09.2026 22:29
In January 2016, Uber ran what the ride-hailing company called a cash experiment in Lagos where riders could pay drivers in naira notes. Lagos was the third African city to try it, after Nairobi and Cairo, and Nairobi had been only the second city anywhere in the world to test cash on the platform.