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Ethiopian Tech Entrepreneurs Are Gradually Transforming Its Education System

startups

11th July 2018

While Nati Gossaye was learning French with the different language apps he found, he noticed it was quite tough to learn on those platforms. So when Facebook launched its Messenger Bot Challenge for Middle East and Africa, he decided to build a gamified chatbot that teaches French. His startup LangBot won the challenge with a […]

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Remembering Fahim Saleh, the missionary Gokada founder

Logistics & Transport

Alexander O. Onukwue

16th July 2020

As news broke early Wednesday morning of the discovery of Fahim Saleh’s body, past and present Gokada employees, his people in the logistics industry and investors in Nigerian tech struggled with shock and disbelief. Saleh, who was 33, was without his limbs and head when police turned up at his upscale apartment in New York […]

Healthcare in Nigeria is messy; Tito Ovia wants to make it less so

My Life In Tech, people

Kay Ugwuede

15th July 2020

My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Tito Ovia is passionate about Nigeria’s healthcare sector. Technology just happens to be a tool that is enabling her and her team at Helium Health address a very key aspect of the […]

80% of new traffic related to pandemic-induced anxiety, says mental health platform, She Writes Woman

Features, Healthcare

Kay Ugwuede

15th July 2020

Nigeria has a grave deficit of medical doctors. For every 5,100 patients in the country, there is only one doctor available. In mental health care, the numbers are grim. For every 800,000 patients, there is only one available psychiatrist according to figures from the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria. When you add the gross lack […]

Inside Nigeria’s Technical Talent Landscape in the last ten years

Developers, startups, TC Insights

Olanrewaju Odunowo

15th July 2020

Nigeria’s technical talent landscape has changed significantly since Andela boiled the proverbial ocean. Today there are at least 25 key players in the industry.

Deep Dive: Nigeria’s Technical Talent Landscape from 1963 to 2018

Developers, startups, TC Insights

Olanrewaju Odunowo

14th July 2020

While Andela defined a new era in the way technical talents are trained and connected with opportunities in 2014, the history of the industry dates as far back as 1963.

How Ekiti, one of Nigeria’s smallest states, is planning a ‘knowledge economy’ to rival Lagos

Features

Alexander O. Onukwue

14th July 2020

Sola Olubayo* got fed up and set out for Lagos without telling her mum. After graduating from Ekiti State University (EKSU) with a degree in Computer Science, the best ‘tech’ job she found was at a bootstrapping shop that built WordPress sites. It paid ₦20,000 ($52), a fraction of a dollar above the national minimum […]

Omowale David-Ashiru: Andela’s approach to balance and strategizing beyond hope

TechCabal Live

Alexander O. Onukwue

13th July 2020

As one of the companies that changed perceptions of Africa’s capacity for a digital economy, Andela is frequently in the spotlight. There’s an argument about how it has hit its peak for excitement and innovation, owing to the internal changes of the past year. In a revealing report by a US journalist late last week, […]

Coronavirus Weekly Update: Big fintech, small adoption

Coronavirus Weekly

Victor Ekwealor

13th July 2020

Share Tweet Share Share Share Cloud company, Rackspace files for IPO A TechCabal roundup about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Africa’s tech industry JULY 12, 2020 This newsletter is a weekly special focused on the effect of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 on African tech and innovation ecosystems. Subscribe here to get it directly […]