Afrobility: Africa Tech & Business
By Olumide Ogunsanwo & Bankole Makanju
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Episodes: 76
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Stories and analyses of African technology companies
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#75: eTranzact - How Nigeria's pioneering payments and switching platform is serving businesses and governments across Africa
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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#74: Moove - How the mobility fintech is providing vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs across Africa and the rest of the world
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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#73: AFEX (Africa Exchange) - How the commodities exchange is facilitating commodity trade by offering training, credit, storage to farmers & providing investment solutions to financial partners
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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#72: Nomba (Kudi) - How the Nigerian FinTech is providing Point-of-Sale, agency banking and payment solutions to merchants across Africa
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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#71: TymeBank - How the South African Neobank is integrating digital and physical experiences to provide holistic financial services across emerging markets
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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#70: Carbon - How the credit-led neobank is providing loans, BNPL and financial services across Nigeria and Africa
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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#69: FairMoney - How the credit-led neobank is providing consumer loans and financial services across Nigeria, India and other developing markets
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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#68: Branch - From Kiva to providing consumer loans and FinTech services across Africa and other developing markets
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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#67: Sabi - How the B2B retail platform is providing business services to informal SMB retailers, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers in Nigeria and Africa
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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#66: TradeDepot - How the B2B retail platform is improving the supply chain for informal SME retailers and consumer goods producers across Nigeria and Africa
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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#65: Wasoko (Sokowatch) - How the B2B retail platform is providing services and improving the supply chain for informal retailers across Kenya and Africa
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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#64: Twiga Foods - How the AgriTech supply chain company is connecting SMB retailers and smallholder farmers to improve food logistics across Kenya and Africa
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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#63: Yoco - How the South African FinTech is scaling Point-of-Sale and other payment solutions to merchants across Africa
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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#62: DPO Group - How the FinTech payments platform went from bootstrapping for 8+ years to strategically acquiring multiple companies, and exiting to Network International for $288M
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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#61: MFS Africa (Onafriq) - How the payments network hub is connecting telcos & financial institutions to increase interoperability across Africa and beyond
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#60: M-Kopa - How the asset financing platform is providing access to consumer products across Kenya & Africa
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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#59: Africa Tech - 2023 & Beyond (Creator Roundtable #2)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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#58: Reliance Health - How the HealthTech platform is providing insurance & health services across Nigeria & Africa
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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#57: African InsurTech - How consumer insurance platforms are providing insurance across Africa
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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#56: Thrive Agric - How the Agriculture platform evolved from crowdfunding to supporting smallholder farmers across Nigeria & Africa
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#55: Apollo Agriculture - How the AgriTech platform is supporting smallholder farmers to scale across Kenya & Africa
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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#54: Swvl - How the bus mobility platform became one of the largest transportation companies in Africa
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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#53: Konga - How the Ecommerce platform initially grew and eventually reset across Nigeria
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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#52: OLX Africa - How the Classifieds platform initially grew and eventually shut down across Africa
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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#51: Jiji - How the Classifieds platform became the largest marketplace in West & East Africa
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May 20, 2022 |
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#50: Wave - From Sendwave remittances to disrupting Francophone Africa with mobile money & financial services
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May 06, 2022 |
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#49: Glo (Globacom) - How the private telecommunications company expanded across Nigeria & West Africa
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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#48: Telkom - How the former South African monopoly evolved to provide telecommunication services across Africa
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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#47: Vodacom - How the South African Telco became one of the largest telecommunications companies in Africa
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#46: MAX (Metro Africa Xpress) - How the mobility tech platform is providing transportation & delivery services across Africa
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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#45: Gokada - How the mobility tech platform is providing delivery & transportation services across Nigeria
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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#44: Pathao - From Ride Sharing & Food Delivery to building the largest mobility platform in Bangladesh
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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#43: Africa Tech - 2022 & Beyond (Creator Roundtable #1)
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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#42: Andela - How the engineering hiring platform is connecting companies with software developers in Africa & emerging markets
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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#41: SafeBoda - How the Ugandan motorbike hailing platform is delivering mobility services across Africa
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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#40: Fawry - How the Egyptian payments platform became one of the largest Tech companies in Africa
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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#39: BIMA (Milvik) - How the HealthTech company is providing insurance & medical services across emerging markets
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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#38: 54gene - How the HealthTech platform is building diverse datasets to improve diagnostic and treatment outcomes across Africa
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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#37: mPharma - How the HealthTech supply chain platform is providing services to pharmacies & patients across Africa
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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#36: Helium Health - How the HealthTech infrastructure platform is supplying services to health care providers across Africa
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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#35: MultiChoice - How the South African Pay TV pioneer became the largest entertainment provider across Africa
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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#34: Kuda Bank - How Nigeria’s most popular Neobank is scaling to offer financial services to “every African on the planet”
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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#33: Chipper Cash - How the FinTech platform started from African remittances to become the fastest unicorn in Africa Tech history
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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#32: African FinTech lending - How consumer loan platforms are providing credit across Africa
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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#31: African Sports betting & gambling tech - The rise & expansion of betting services across Africa
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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#30: Paga - How one of Nigeria’s earliest FinTech companies is providing financial services across emerging markets
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May 31, 2021 |
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#29: bKash - How the FinTech payments platform became Bangladesh’s largest tech company
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May 16, 2021 |
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#28: Sendwave - How the mobile remittances service scaled from Y Combinator to a $500M WorldRemit exit
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May 03, 2021 |
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#27: Takealot - How the South African online retailer became one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Africa
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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#26: African AgriTech - Early opportunities for technology to scale Agriculture across Africa
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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#25: Crypto trading exchanges (African WealthTech Pt 3) - How cryptocurrency platforms are providing decentralized financial services across Africa
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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#24: Neobanks (African WealthTech Pt 2) - How TymeBank, Kuda & other digital banks are delivering banking services across Africa
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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#23: Stock trading services (African WealthTech Pt 1) - How retail investment platforms are racing to build the African Robinhood and Zerodha
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#22: African Corporate VCs & Softbank - Why African corporates are not investing in tech startups
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#21: uLesson - How the EdTech platform is bridging the educational gap across Nigeria & Anglophone Africa
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#20: Paystack - How the FinTech payments platform went from Y Combinator to a $200M Stripe exit in 5 years
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#19: Africa Tech - 2021 & Beyond
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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#18: Flutterwave - From Y Combinator to becoming one of Africa’s largest FinTech platforms
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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#17: Interswitch - How the pioneering Nigerian FinTech & payments platform became one of the most valuable private companies in Africa
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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#16: Iroko TV - How the Nollywood video platform is overcoming challenges to deliver African entertainment around the world
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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#15: Orange - How the former French monopoly telco entered & expanded in Francophone Africa
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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#14: African HealthTech - Emerging opportunities for technology to provide better, faster & cheaper health care across Africa
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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#13: Airtel - How the world's second largest telco expanded from India to Africa
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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#12: Innovation Hubs (CcHub, iHub & others) - How African incubators, accelerators & co-working spaces are nurturing entrepreneurship and building the tech ecosystem
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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#11: African EdTech & lessons from Byju's - The story of the world's most valuable EdTech company & the emerging opportunities for technology to scale education across Africa
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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#10: MTN - How Africa's largest Telco grew to dominate Africa and expand to other emerging markets
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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#9: OPay (Opera Pay) - From Web Browser & Fintech to blitzscaling and building Africa's Super App
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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#8: Reliance Jio - How India's largest company enabled a mobile revolution & how Africa can also have a "Jio Moment"
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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#7: Internet access & Technology censorship - Why and how African governments are increasing internet restrictions
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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#6: Safaricom - How Kenya’s largest telco drove M-Pesa to become the most successful mobile financial platform in Africa
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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#5: Naspers - How Africa’s largest company went from newspaper publishing to Tencent and Prosus
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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#4: African Mobility Tech (Uber, Taxify & others) - How ridesharing is changing transportation across Africa
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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#3: Transsion (Tecno, Infinix & Itel) - From Shenzhen China to dethroning Samsung & Huawei to become Africa's top phone seller
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May 18, 2020 |
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#2: Jumia - From Rocket Internet to Unicorn IPO. What’s next for the ‘Amazon of Africa’?
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May 03, 2020 |
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#1: African Fintech - 2018 to 2020 startup investments funding boom in Africa
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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#0: Introduction to Afrobility - What to expect from the podcast
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Apr 19, 2020 |