Most people who grew up with doctor parents either follow the medical path or reject it entirely. Joshua Adewolu did neither. Raised in Benin City, the Edo State capital, southern Nigeria, with an elder brother who studied medicine, he spent his childhood as the one person in the house who could not keep up with the medical conversations.
“I was the odd one out, not understanding what was being communicated,” Adewolu says.
For a while, the path seemed obvious: medicine. But in 2009, his interests shifted.
“I told my parents that I would rather be the one to make the devices that you use to treat people,” he recalls. “That was the beginning of my career”.
He completed his secondary education in 2013, and in the same year, enrolled at Afe Babalola University (ABUAD), a private university in Ekiti State. He chose to study Mechatronics Engineering, a multidisciplinary field combining mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering.
“There were only two universities in Nigeria that were offering the course— Afe Babalola University and one other university,” he says.
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