My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Chibueze Ukaegbu’s journey to founding LearnFactory was a whirlwind and in some way, is the continuation of his father’s legacy as the founder of the first computer school in old Imo State […]
Mayokun Fadeyibi grew up in two university communities with five sisters raised by two university professors. Growing up between Ife and Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Fadeyibi moved to the US where she spent another 13 years studying and obtaining her undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degrees in Mathematics and Business. Family obligations as a new mother to […]
In a pseudo-futuristic short film titled The Conversation, a young Anu Adasolum, Chief Operating Officer, Rensource, wants nothing more but to change the power situation in Nigeria. As a girl who loved reading and doing take-home assignments, irregular power outages in the country meant that her study time was often cut short by these blackouts […]
My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. For Women’s Month, we are profiling some of Africa’s female founders, C-suite executives, investors, and policymakers. From Kikuyu, a town in southern Kenya to the Central Business District in Nairobi, is a 20-25 km […]
My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. For Women’s Month, we are profiling some of Africa’s female founders, C-suite executives, investors, and policymakers. When I meet Tomilola Adejana, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bankly in January at the […]
In well-ironed blue uniforms and IDs clipped to their breast pockets, police officers N. I. Albert and A. A. Umar look distinct from many of their colleagues notorious for kidnapping, maiming and robbing innocent Nigerians. But as another tumultuous week of brutality against young techies wound down, both men were invited from Force headquarters Abuja […]