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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 …

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 …

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 …