The people and institutions building lasting connections and capacity across the Black world.
Reach Robotics put MekaMon inside Apple Stores before shutting down in 2019. Seven years later, Adekunle is building AI for science in Britain and language technology in Nigeria. Silas Adekunle had already done the part most hardware founders never reach. His company had built a physical product, sold its first production run, raised venture capital.
His LegacyLink project records oral histories, scans family objects and is developing AI versions of elders that future generations could question. Afegbua wants to document 1,000 people by 2028. Malik Afegbua does not know what his great-grandfather looked like. He does not have recordings of his voice or a body of stories he can return.
She took over MultiChoice Nigeria after subscriber losses, price disputes and a Canal+ takeover. Her job is to defend a pay-TV business in a market where viewers have more ways to leave. When Kemi Omotosho became chief executive of MultiChoice Nigeria in January, the business she inherited was already losing customers. MultiChoice said its Nigerian.
Eight months into the job, NUPRC says permit approvals have fallen from 72 hours to under 24. Nigeria has also met its OPEC quota for three straight months, but the 3 million-barrel target remains far away. Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan spent nearly 33 years inside Nigeria’s state oil company. She worked on strategy, commercial agreements and upstream.
He left local market in Lagos with a fraction of the startup capital he expected from his boss, returned to school and later moved to Britain. His route into finance began with an accounting qualification after months in an Amazon warehouse. Collins Okeke was 16 when his father sent him into the Igbo apprenticeship system.
Cassava Technologies says its AI-computing programme could cost up to $720 million. South Africa is first, with Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco planned next. Strive Masiyiwa has always been ahead of the curve. In the 1990s, he challenged Zimbabwe’s telecom monopoly and emerged victorious, bringing mobile phones to millions. Decades later, the billionaire founder of.
Age is no longer a limitation for success. It’s not an excuse for doing or attempting a big project, either. Technology has levelled the playing field. These top 7 young entrepreneurs in Nigeria are proof that it’s possible. Young thinkers and innovators are emerging across Nigeria and the African continent. They are taking charge, building.
It started with a simple idea in 2010, late one night in Lagos. Debby Lawson, a fresh graduate with a degree in electronics and computer engineering, was waiting — like so many young Nigerians — for the big job offer that would change everything. She dreamed of landing a role in the banking or oil.
Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya, alongside US National master Shawn Martinez, has officially shattered the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon, clocking in an astonishing 64 hours of nonstop play. Surpassing the previous record of 61 hours held by two Norwegian players, Tunde didn’t just move pawns and rooks, he moved mountains. “For.
Over an astonishing 106 hours, 55 minutes, and 20 seconds, Nigerian fashion designer Oluwaseun Kuforiji broke the Guinness World Record for the longest hand-sewing marathon. It was a moment filled with emotion, exhaustion, and triumph. Kuforiji didn’t just set a record; he captured the hearts and imaginations of countless Nigerians and Africans. He poured his.