Led by CEO Dr. Nkwenti Azong-Wara, Maviance PLC is a Cameroonian digital financial-services company modernising how money moves across Central Africa. Its flagship platform, Smobilpay, connects banks, microfinance institutions, mobile-money operators, businesses and service providers through one digital ecosystem supporting bill payments, collections, bulk disbursements, e-commerce transactions, agent banking and cross-border payments. Since launching in Cameroon in 2012, Mav

Africa produces around 70-75% of the world’s cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of the value generated by the global chocolate industry. Now, four of the continent’s largest producers—Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon—are seeking to change that. At the 2026 Cocoa Value Addition Summit in Abuja, the countries signed the Abuja Declaration, establishing the Cocoa Value Addition Alliance to shift Africa from exporting raw cocoa beans toward processing, manufacturing, a