Jack Dorsey's latest trip to several African countries is said to have taken over Twitter's boss, to the point that he plans to spend "between three and six months" of the year starting in 2020. Where exactly? "Not sure yet," he dodges in a tweet posted on November 29.

Sad to be leaving the continent ... for now. Africa will define the future (especially the bitcoin one!). Not sure where yet, but I'll be living here for 3-6 months mid 2020. Grateful I was able to experience a small part. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/9VqgbhCXWd

- jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) November 27, 2019

The list of countries visited in November 2019 by Jack Dorsey extends from Nigeria to Ethiopia, via South Africa and Ghana. His Twitter account is full of pictures of meetings with young entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, landscapes of South Africa - where he landed for a meditative retreat - admiring statements for the profusion of ideas in Ghana, not forgetting the meeting with visual artists in Nigeria.

Above all, in this slideshow of African interests posted by Jack Dorsey, there is much talk of bitcoin, this virtual currency created on the Internet in 2008 and whose course varies freely, without the intervention of a central bank. "Africa will define the future (especially that of bitcoin!)," Enthuses Jack Dorsay in his message of love to Africa, which announces its desire to live on the continent part of the year.

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"We are very very pro-bitcoin"

On the African continent, bitcoin is indeed popular, whether to feed simple money transfers or to circumvent currency crises. Among the examples of use, the Nigerian platform "Tanjalo" proposes to make it a currency of exchange on a daily basis. Bitcoin already has its competitors, and Facebook announced the creation of "libra" in 2020.

But the use of cryptocurrencies has setbacks, including the highs and lows of the bitcoin value. The fluctuation over the year 2018 has indeed been dizzying and has shown that this crypto-value can be likened to a "speculative bubble". The use of this virtuality by terrorist groups based in Africa, which bypass the banking rules, also raises ethical questions.

If Jack Dorsey is interested in monetary exchanges in African economies, it's not so much with Twitter's head cap, but as the creator of "Square", an electronic payment start-up founded in 2011. Jack Dorsey tirelessly displays his optimism for this company - which he runs in parallel to his duties at the head of Twitter.

Square Crypto, the company's crypto subsidiary - the storage and transmission of information without a control organ - recruited Steve Lee, a bitcoin enthusiast and former executive of Google. In July, Steve Lee spoke of Square Crypto, on behalf of Jack Dorsey, during a "Ask me anything" session on Twitter: "Square Crypto is an open-source initiative to strengthen the bitcoin ecosystem. We are very, very pro-bitcoin. There is more than enough work to do for us there. That said, we are open to emerging use cases and complementary bitcoin technologies. "

Since "part of this bitcoin ecosystem is developing in Africa today, Jack Dorsey and Square Crypto have every interest in supporting this movement, including investing in projects and recruiting developers", analyzes Christophe Auffray, journalist crypto / blockchain specialist on the cryptonaute.fr website.

An Afro-blue currency

Behind the commercial ambitions of Square Crypto, this sudden African passion may also be related to Jack Dorsey's temperament. In 2011, the manager admitted to the magazine "Vanity Fair" that his ultimate goal was to become mayor of New York. Is it therefore ambitious to lead the governance of the mega Big Apple, the direction of Twitter in San Francisco and an expansion of Square on the African continent?

Taken of Africanophilia, Jack Dorsey also made public, the same day, his favorite for the standard of jazz "afro-blue", composed by "Mongo" SantamarĂ­a, percussionist afro-Cuban, and popularized by the saxophonist John Coltrane , broadcast on Fip radio. "Afro-blue" is the song of a dreamed, fantasized Africa, populated by "elegant boys" and "beautiful girls" who dance to the sound of percussion. Jack Dorsey would like to dance to the accelerated pace of bitcoin.

I'm listening to "Afro Blue" from Robert Glasper & Erykah Badu on @fipradiohttps: //t.co/EpIhl4xtvo

- jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) November 29, 2019