The Nigerian tech scene is one of the only bright spots in my twitter bubble. They’re discovering the joys of the Web as I got to back in the 2000s but they get to use all the modern stuff whereas I had IE6.
They’re not building ad networks to spy on each other, they’re
They’re not building ad networks to spy on each other, they’re
building technology that they see elsewhere on the planet and think would work in Nigeria.
“We got tired of waiting for Western tech to come to Nigeria so we built it ourselves” as a senior eng at Andela told me.
The joy of doing it yourself comes through in almost every tweet.
“We got tired of waiting for Western tech to come to Nigeria so we built it ourselves” as a senior eng at Andela told me.
The joy of doing it yourself comes through in almost every tweet.
And just incredible respect for living up to the promise of the Web with home grown technologies that solve problems real people have and putting the REAL meaning of “social” back into the social media that is the WWW.
If I could send this clip back in time to the 80s it would win all the sci fi short film awards but instead it’s just gritty reality 😄
facebook.com/irokotv/videos…
facebook.com/irokotv/videos…
Every 20th century cyberpunk futurist who took up the topic, predicted that “Africa” would be left behind by global tech.
They were all wrong! No one predicted the Nigerian tech scene!!
They were all wrong! No one predicted the Nigerian tech scene!!
Some more detail on the totally success of @irokotv as a streaming service in a market where all the “better positioned” companies had to hard pivot.
https://twitter.com/noahsussman/status/1439305768881336320
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