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Patricia Pedhom Nono hasn’t always been a tech leader, but her achievements say otherwise. With an engineering background, she’s currently a prominent tech leader in sub-Saharan Francophone Africa with 18 years of experience. Welcome to a new episode of Expert and African.
This week on Expert and African, Oluwanifemi picked out practical lessons from three growth and marketing experts that have been featured in this series. If you are considering marketing as a career or want to know what it’s about, this is for you.
Kenyan lawyer, Selina Onyando chose an unconventional route after studying law, and the road led her into law tech, which she currently practises. This week’s edition of Expert and African looks at Africa’s tech regulation landscape through her eyes and documents what it takes to be a tech policy analyst.
Popular Nigerian tech YouTuber and visual storyteller, Fisayo Fosudo has taken many risks for his chosen career path. He shares some of his mistakes and wins on his journey so far.
This week, we explore the life of one of Africa’s finest cybersecurity experts, Confidence Staveley(@sisinerd) and her journey to building CyberSafe Foundation, a company driving cybersecurity best practices across Africa, especially for society’s most vulnerable.
Njoku Emmanuel’s (@njokuScript) dream of becoming Africa’s Zuckerberg started with hawking digital solutions for small businesses and trying to solve state-wide water scarcity. How did all this become Lazerpay? Find out.
You’re more likely to associate Sudan with wars and conflict, but it also has a growing tech ecosystem. @AhmedElmurtada, Co-founder and Managing Partner of @249Startups, is helping these startups access capital.
Here’s how Everest Nwagwu, a marketing expert, has made a name for himself by gaining experience in several fields, including phone manufacturing, healthtech, fintech, and edtech, in less than 10 years
Driven by the urge to help businesses succeed, seasoned Kenyan entrepreneur, @Jorammwinamo started at a management consulting company. Now, he’s built a consortium and made a name for himself in the Kenyan tech ecosystem. But there is more.
To celebrate this year’s #InternationalDayOfTheGirlChild, we tell the stories of four remarkable women fearlessly taking on Africa’s tech ecosystem and carving their names in history.
Every year, on September 23, the #InternationalDayofSignLanguages is celebrated. But, for the deaf community, what does it really mean to communicate in a world where tech reigns supreme? We explore this and more.
Designing album covers for popular artistes like @adekunleGOLD and @BlaqBonez, meant @AnthonyAzekwoh’s art career had peaked. But then he stepped into the #NFT space and discovered something amazing. Dive in to find out.
Despite being hugely underrepresented in the technology space, Africans have made significant contributions. In celebrating the International Day for People of African Descent, we shine the light on 12 inspiring Africans.
Six years after co-founding print-on-demand startup, @Printivo, @OluyomiOjo has stepped down from his role as CEO.
Eight months after the @paystack exit, one of the company’s early investors, @OtunbaSho, launches VC firm, Voltron Capital. The firm’s portfolio will primarily focus on startups in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and North Africa.
Nigerian-American, @AbakeAdenle, who is building a voice recognition API for five African languages, recently received an award from @WomenInVoice. Adenle plans to do more to digitise African languages.
June 26 is World Refrigeration Day. After scouring the Internet, I finally found Emmanuel, an AC technician in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. I had a chat with him about several issues. You should read it.
On April 30, 2021, the UK Nigeria Tech Hub hosted Jessica Hope, Founder of Wimbart at the Building from Ground up series in partnership with Techpoint Africa. Here are the key takeaways
Mobility startup, @GokadaNG has been without a CEO for the past eight months following Fahim Saleh’s passing in July 2020. This changes today as ex @SafeBoda_Kenya and @zomato exec, Nikhil Goel takes up the role.
One year after announcing an opening for a country lead, @Apple appoints @Teju_at_Oracle as Managing Director for Nigeria to oversee sales and business development. How does this look on the Nigerian iOS market?