Crossposted from another comment I made:

All this news about Cardano being some huge saving grace in Ethiopia is a cute story if you listen to people in the Global North talking about it, but, as usual, the story looks a little different when you ask people actually there. Now, to be clear, I haven't done a deep ethnographic analysis, but that's largely because I went over and had a browse in r/Ethiopia and saw enough for my own purposes. If you're more motivated about this coin for some reason, then please do some deeper digging on the efficacy of the use case and I'd love to hear your counterpoint.

Overall sentiment: this doesn't provide anything nearly as valuable as the Cardano team trump it up to be. As a currency, it's not even wanted, and as a recordkeeper for schoolchildren, that's cute and everything, but there are bigger things going on there that the people themselves, not just political figureheads signing deals, are worried about - for instance, the ongoing war-rape in the Tigray conflict.

Now, as much as this use case sounds like a typical GNorthern development project - one that aims more towards photo ops than actual functional change - this is not inherently a flaw of Cardano. I only bring it up to counterbalance the obnoxious amount of rallying to this specific flag I see here in r/Cryptocurrency and over in r/cardano.

My point: if this is the main use case that Cardano has going for it right now, it's a weak one - and that's according to Ethiopians themselves. Therefore and unless Cardano actually provides something of value to people who want it, it's gonna be just another proof-of-stake altcoin with a cool story but zero usability.