She learned finance on Wall Street. Now she is changing how Africa gets funded.

There is a particular kind of distance between Wall Street and Lebowakgomo, a township in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.

One is synonymous with global finance, enormous transactions and institutions moving billions of dollars across markets. The other is where Grace Legodi grew up in a family shaped by the horrors of apartheid, an enforced system of racial segregation, where her…