July, 2026

• 1 July

  Cencori Inc: Building the Infrastructure Layer for the Next Era of Intelligence

  

  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 …

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June, 2026

• 18 June

  Anthony Atuoha on the silent problem no one in tech talks about

  

  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 …

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• 4 June

  Michelle Buchi Okonicha wants to build the future of technology

  

  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 …

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May, 2026

• 14 May

  Solomon Eseme’s Blueprint for Building Backend Engineers of the Future

  

  “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 …

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March, 2026

• 26 March

  Olusegun Adeleke: The founder who heard a voice

  

  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 …

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• 19 March

  Precious Kolawole’s unlikely path to becoming a Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify

  

  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. …

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• 12 March

  How Seun Koshoedo Is Building the Soul of African Brands

  

  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 …

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• 5 March

  Rita Enosegbe’s playbook for building a brand as a founder in Africa

  

  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 …

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February, 2026

• 28 February

  How Sharon Ariyo-Adeoye helps African founders build high-trust brands in a low-trust economy

  

  Sharon Ariyo-Adeoye has always been good at convincing people. “As long as I can remember, I’ve always been somebody who is confident about persuading people to believe or be involved in things that I do or things that I believe in,” she says. That natural gift led her into tech during the era when it “was the new rave.” She …

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• 18 February

  Building Tools, Not Just Apps: AbdulAzeez Olanrewaju’s Journey from VB.NET to Creating Stunk

  

  There’s something quietly revolutionary happening in a corner of Lagos. While most Nigerian developers are building apps like fintech solutions, e-commerce platforms, delivery services, AbdulAzeez Olanrewaju is building something different. He’s building the tools that other developers use to build those apps. It’s a rarer path, a harder path, and if you ask him about it, he’ll tell you the …

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