Lebadu Ceplé Laménté

Building @whilesmart, @trailpad, @sourceantai, @flatrundev, @nextclouders. Interested in money, advocacy & governance.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

How to survive in a world of talented people.

It may be counter-intuitive for me to say the world is filled with talented people simply because all we see almost every time is an utmost display showing "lack-of-talent". #thread

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

Can someone at @YouTube go to the Apple Developer dashboard and fix this?

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@YouTube Is there any reason why the YouTube mobile app for iOS is not available in #Cameroon meanwhile the same application is available on Android for the same region?

I just found out Cameroonians need to switch locations to be able to download YouTube on AppStore.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@Mamsy96 Let's ASSUME this is true completely ignoring the "egg and spaghetti" culture especially in the Francophone regions. We don't eat rice so what? Make them ask Igwe for organize award for we?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

SQLite supports databases up to 281 terabytes in size

SQLite is a highly optimized piece of software and can easily write 500,000 rows per second with proper batching

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@DanielNgongang We should but can we? Why should they allow you that level of convenience? 😭

For it to work though all systems need to talk to each other for example they now require tax compliance to renew passports so the DGI will need to expose data to DGSN.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@LobgaJ @africatechie @DanielNgongang Also the model does not work; government should maintain a grid and open up the sector for private investment (multiple companies). We are trying too hard to be the lowest budget version of China. it’s not working - the people heading the ship don’t have the skills to steer.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@LobgaJ @africatechie @DanielNgongang Well it’s the government’s job to provide transparency and communication. If Cameroonians don’t know is happening it’s largely the fault of government. Talking about going bankrupt is all fallbacks on them. The state itself was notorious for owing the enterprise.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@SemudaraAbayomi What does this virtual magic or respect do for them?

No matter how many ridiculous things Tinubu says he will still be respected by you either willingly or by force (fear of consequence).

Leverage, fear, power… are the basis for which people are respected.

[Oo Nwoye @OoTheNigerian]

Anyone that has built or hired at scale understands the point Tosin of Moniepoint is trying to make.

Finding one person is different from when you need 50 in a short while. And no, you cannot pass arround the same developers.

Let's leave tech.

Can you find great plumbers, mechanics, electricians in Nigeria? At scale?

If you you want to repair a Mercedes with a complex problem in Lagos (10 million people) you'd be given the same 5 names. 3 would be those doing side waka from Coscharis.

For Lekki Bridge, they imported people cos they could not find the 10 or so deep sea welders in Nigeria.

Some skills take years to build and require systems. We are not talking tying gele, doing drop shipping. A global company competing no dey find who go "run am".

There is a place for interns etc. But those are not the person that will build the company.

We lied to ourselves that population = asset is where our problem stated.

Nigeria has many problems and Tosin is not one of them. Go elsewhere and look for who will massage ya egos.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@ariesomawrld Most companies will train in some form but they can’t replace poor educational foundations and systems. As a professional you should be mostly ready if you want to get paid. Companies are not charities.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

There's a whole industry built around African poverty. NGOs, consultants, conferences, awareness campaigns, celebrity endorsements. 

Billions of dollars flow through this system every year, employing thousands of well-paid Westerners.

None of those people have an incentive for the problem to actually be solved, because if African poverty disappeared tomorrow, they'd all need new jobs. 

I'm not saying they're evil. 

I'm saying the incentive structure is broken, and incentives shape behavior more than intentions do.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@DanielNgongang @YOLO_AEMCS MTN and Orange didn't deny them anything. USSD is regulated by MINPOSTEL and even today they have their own channels that work on all networks. The courts where also open but express Union didn't stand a chance because of their own mistakes.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@DanielNgongang @YOLO_AEMCS Disagree. Express Union was a terrible company before MTN introduced Momo in 2010. Customer service and satisfaction was on the floor. They were a monopoly and abused the hell out of it.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

When Africa becomes prosperous, racism against Black people everywhere will drop dramatically.

That's not wishful thinking, you can actually watch this pattern play out in history.

The Japanese were heavily discriminated against in America until Japan became an economic power. 

Then suddenly Japanese culture was cool, Japanese products were premium, and the hostility faded. The same happened with South Korea.

Prosperity rewrites how the world sees your people. 

Nothing else even comes close.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

How shameless. I pre-ordered Starlink back in 2019, pending regulatory approval. Most countries in Africa have received approval, but the country whose parliament building was funded and built by China says it can’t approve Starlink due to data privacy concerns.

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

Il y a le WIfi! Des agents Camtel partout pour connecter les gens. Mais guess what?? It’s Starlink!! 😅 I had to double check. It’s slow though.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@steipete How is the repository management going? I know you built something because existing stuff didn’t fit but there’s a repository management plugin built into https://t.co/G56emPvxYD

Would be interesting to get your thoughts.

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@footsieorworld @africatechie So what are you doing here? Why didn't you share this opinion with your family members in your backyard?

[Lebadu Ceplé Laménté @noellinks]

@steipete @vishal_relayer @openclaw There's https://t.co/G56emPvxYD

that already has an in-built repository management plugin.

@sourceantai