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  Home Headlines Digital currency is the way to go for Africa – Bawumia
  Fifth Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference (GITFiC)
  Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says it is time African governments embrace digital currency (bitcoin) to facilitate trade and enhance other productive sectors of their economies.
  Vice-President Bawumia noted that digitisation had become one of the most consequential policies of President Akufo-Addo's government and pivotal towards increasing economic activities, macroeconomic stability, and growth.
  "Concurrently, digitisation has also become one of the most consequential policies of the Nana Akufo-Addo government. When the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced many economies into partial and total lockdowns, it reinforced the need to pursue digitization," Dr Bawumia emphasised.
  "Indeed, one has to recognise that for the financial services sector to play its role, there must be financial inclusion.
  The advent of this legislation, Dr Bawumia explained that, had helped deepen financial intermediation and financial inclusion, not only in Ghana but across the continent.