The first cohort was an experiment to see what would happen if you gave people resources and set them loose. We ended up with four projects: an animated short film, a podcast series, essays, and a documentary film.
Now, we're taking all our learnings into the next cohort :🧵👇🏾
Applications are now open for the second cohort of The https://t.co/fC0pNfV3wq Fellowship. If you want to answer big questions, produce urgent stories, or build powerful tools that deepen understanding of Nigerian history, this is for you.
Apply here: https://t.co/KWHveyy6h4
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
- James Baldwin.
So, @OoTheNigerian never built a breakout startup of his own. Yet for more than a decade, he has been one of the quiet forces shaping Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. From Paystack to Bumpa and Lemfi, his fingerprints are on some of the ecosystem’s most consequential success stories.
Every tech ecosystem celebrates its founders: the visionary builders who bend reality to their will in pursuit of billion-dollar valuations. But ecosystems are also shaped by another kind of operator: the connector. The person who makes introductions, opens doors, lobbies institutions, and quietly makes things happen.
Read the full article here:
https://t.co/lgs2QEngqN.
Written by @Jolomijo
terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info
Avoid traffic by taking the ferry. Explore the first comprehensive map of ferry routes in Lagos, including schedules and prices. https://t.co/P2cvIE6Tpc
"Local bag of rice — ₦32 in 1980 (₦20,000 bought 625 bags). Today, that same ₦20,000 buys barely a third of a bag." It's worth more than ₦40 million today.
P.S: Not a publicly available tool yet, but some perspective for everyone.