PATRICK NELLE WHEN crypto startup Ejara recently inked a 2 million US dollar funding deal to bring to 5 million dollars the total amount out cash it has raised in 8 months, Francophone Africa sat up and took notice of the company - and its CEO and co-founder, Nelly Chatue-Diop. The company is blazing a trail for startups in the sector in Francophone Africa, offering venture capital a new route to potentially lucrative markets and forcing venture capitalists who have traditionally focused on fintech opportunities in Anglophone Africa to shift their gaze. But while cryptocurrencies offer lucrative opportunities in Africa,…