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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, …

He was supposed to be a doctor. “Life got real,” Mekitmfon Herbert Awakessien says, in the flat, amused tone of a man who has told this story before. “My fingers touched the keyboard, and they never wanted to touch an injection or a test tube again.” That single swerve from medicine to computer science is the smallest of the redirections …

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 …

As a boy, Anthony Atuoha wanted to be a lawyer. Then he sat in front of a computer for the first time, and that was the end of his law career. “I felt like I had a connection with it,” he says. Today, Anthony is a Senior Mobile Software Engineer specialising in Flutter, a technical writer published on freeCodeCamp, an …

When Michelle Buchi Okonicha was little, she wanted to be the next Chimamanda. She dreamt about moving people through her writing. Today, she is an AI & Machine Learning Engineer, a Google Developer Expert, a Women Techmakers Ambassador, and the founder of Girls Like Me Dream Initiative, an initiative dedicated to ensuring that girls, regardless of background, can dream without …

“There was no structured learning path. I had to learn backend engineering from different people.” Solomon Eseme’s entry into backend engineering was not smooth or straightforward. In his own words, it was messy. He learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from different courses, different instructors, and different teaching styles. Each teacher had their own method, language, and assumptions. Instead of giving …

At some point in the middle of the night, Olusegun Adeleke was walking down the stairs toward his bedroom, trying to force himself to sleep after hours of restlessness, when a thought arrived that didn’t feel like his own. It was the seed of PAAQ, which stands for Please Ask Any Question, a platform connecting knowledge seekers with verified experts …

Precious had a clear plan: become like Ben Carson, the American neurosurgeon. She applied to study medicine at the University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, and the University of Ibadan. None of them took her. OAU offered her zoology instead. She negotiated her way into a physiotherapy programme and found she actually enjoyed it. Then COVID-19 hit, and everything stopped. …

Most branding agencies will tell you they help companies grow. Seun Koshoedo, founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Xcentrique Media, says they do something deeper: they give brands a soul. In a market where African companies are either chasing global trends or struggling to translate their identity into something customers actually connect with, her seven-year-old agency has carved out a …

When you see that 11,000 people follow Rita Enosegbe on X, It’s hard to imagine that she had only 11 followers a few years ago. It was a frustrating time for her. She had failed at network marketing, struggled for 11 months as an affiliate marketer, and had just lost the opportunity to pursue her master’s degree in the UK …