Startup

In Nigeria, online generosity has a familiar choreography. A creator announces a giveaway. The replies fill with phone numbers and bank details. Someone opens a spreadsheet. Someone else starts making transfers one by one. What is meant to feel generous can quickly become an administrative job. Mayowa Sunusi thinks that job should disappear. He is the technical founder behind Ridim, …

There is a particular kind of ambition that does not announce itself loudly. It begins as a private frustration, a technical itch, a question that refuses to leave the mind of a builder: why is this still so hard? For Cencori Inc, that question became the beginning of a company. At its core, Cencori is building AI cloud infrastructure for …

Thani Oluwaseun knows what it feels like to be depressed and not know where to find help. “I’ve been depressed myself in the past and knowing how difficult it can be,” Thani reflects. “I was able to pick myself up, but not everybody can. That’s why some people go into substance abuse.” His experience with depression left him with a …

For as long as he could remember, computers had always fascinated Eric Aprioku. However, when his parents enrolled him in a computer school, it was as if his fingers were cursed. “I seemed to have an unrequited relationship with hardware because I spoiled every single system I tried to fix.” He was close to giving up when he discovered Python …