Miale School

Learn web dev with purpose. Build things people actually need.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is a new week,

What did you build last week?

What are you building this week?

What is blocking you?

#PotentialMonday

[Skills Activist @dearyoung_me]

Let me tell you about the most expensive lie ever sold.

It goes like this: Coding is a special talent reserved for a specific type of person. You either have "the knack" or you don't.

This lie is whispered in school guidance counselors' offices. It is shouted from the rooftops of Silicon Valley prestige. It is encoded in hiring practices that demand computer science degrees for jobs that don't need them. And it has created a self-fulfilling prophecy that keeps billions of people locked out of the most transformative skill of our era.

Because the formal system fails so spectacularly, a new generation of African entrepreneurs, educators, and technologists is building alternatives. They are leapfrogging the factory floor.

Look at Kenya’s School @MialeSchool. These are not traditional universities. They are “coding bootcamps” and tech talent accelerators that have an ironclad focus on industry-relevant skills. They don’t ask for your high school transcript. They ask to see if you can learn. They partner with global companies to place graduates directly into jobs. They are creating a new currency of competence that rivals the old currency of credentials.

[Skills Activist @dearyoung_me]

@MialeSchool The real story isn't Tunde. It's the 12,000 drivers who trusted a guy with no degree.

He didn't skip the degree, he just found a problem expensive enough to make it irrelevant.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

Tunde launched a web platform connecting Lagos taxi drivers with mechanics.

It has 12,000 users. He employs four developers. He never finished a computer science degree. He never took a bootcamp.

He just decided to stop being a ghost in the machine.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

Learning web dev will hurt. You will feel stupid. You will rage at a semicolon. You will question every life choice that led you to this moment. That is not a bug. That is a feature. The pain of learning to code is the pain of your brain rewiring itself.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

@beyoumf Start before.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

It is the ability to think in systems, to tolerate ambiguity, to break down reality into components and rebuild it according to your will.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

We have interviewed developers in Lagos who taught themselves to code on $40 Android phones. W have sat with former coal miners in Wales who rebuilt their identities through JavaScript.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

We have watched a 14-year-old girl in rural Kenya deploy a web application that tracks livestock vaccination records for her entire village.

What they all discovered is that web development is not a technical skill. It is a psychological transformation.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

In a continent of 1.4 billion people, the number of professional web developers hovers around 700,000. That means for every 2,000 Africans, there is one person who can build the digital world.

[Miale School @MialeSchool]

In 2024, there are 27 million software developers in the world. By 2030, that number will exceed 45 million. But here's the statistic that should terrify and excite you: less than 1% of the African continent's population can write even a single line of HTML.