Tech Talent

Factsheet: Frontend developers are in high demand. Here’s how to become one

Factsheet

24th July 2020

You are reading Factsheet, our series of specific guides on experiencing and using technology platforms in Africa. Whether you are looking for knowledge on getting your African film on Netflix, raising a seed round or finishing an online design course, we are covering all that. — Lucas Gompou learned useful programming basics in high school. […]

A Tale of Two Cities with Senior Software Engineer Adebayo Adesanya

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Wole Olayinka

8th February 2019

Adebayo Adesanya went from leading a tech team in Lagos to joining a Berlin-based financial services company as a senior software engineer. He shares the highs and lows of working at home and abroad.

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The Next Wave: Exorcising evil forces

The Next Wave

Victor Ekwealor

28th September 2020

An exclusive West African Disney deal SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 This newsletter is a weekly in-depth analysis of tech and innovation in Africa that will serve as a post-pandemic guide. Subscribe here to get it directly in your inbox every Sunday at 3 pm WAT. Hello, Last week I was away on a much needed break […]

Factsheet: Between venture capital and private equity investments in African tech

Factsheet

Alexander O. Onukwue

25th September 2020

You are reading Factsheet, our series of specific guides on experiencing and using technology platforms in Africa. Whether you are looking for knowledge on getting your African film on Netflix, raising a seed round or finishing an online design course, we are covering all that. — Between February and August 2020, Lateral Capital made a […]

Digital Nomads: The Nigerian sharing data-backed African solutions with the world

Digital Nomads

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

25th September 2020

We need some kind of repository so that when postgraduate students or companies collect data they can upload this data to the repository. This way, we can create secondary data for future students, instead of repeating the process of collecting data years down the line.

Will GPT-3 take your job?

Features, Technology

Kay Ugwuede

25th September 2020

Short answer? It depends. Long answer? There are more critical things to worry about. At least, that is what experts and experience with advanced technologies like this say, especially if you live in Africa. If you write things—news articles from standard press releases or reportage from a war zone, code, poetry, communiques, fiction—if you write […]

The BackEnd: How Nigerian bank domiciliary accounts compete with fintech dollar features

The BackEnd

Alexander O. Onukwue

24th September 2020

The BackEnd explores the product development process in African tech. We take you into the minds of those who conceived, designed and built the product; highlighting product uniqueness, user behaviour assumptions and challenges during the product cycle. — At 7:03pm on Tuesday, Zenith Bank put out a short statement on its official Twitter account. The […]

The magic of science with everyday tools in Ghana; Heather Beem’s PEN story

My Life In Tech, people

Kay Ugwuede

23rd September 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. Heather Beem wants every science student on the continent to be able to understand and remember meiosis or Newton’s First Law of Motion because they were taught in such a memorable way. […]

How do you get Nigerians to sign up for national identity?

Features

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

23rd September 2020

Only about 20% of Nigerians are in the country’s national identity database despite efforts to get people to have national IDS. How can these initiatives get Nigerians to take this process seriously?

Exclusive Disney deal expands FilmOne’s West Africa dominance, but what are the risks?

Entertainment

Alexander O. Onukwue

23rd September 2020

This month, FilmOne entertainment became the exclusive distributors of all Disney movies in Anglophone West Africa, fortifying the Nigerian company as the kingmakers of film content in the sub region. FilmOne is the distribution and production sister company to FilmHouse, a cinema chain with 34% market share of the film exhibition industry across Nigeria, Ghana […]