I've been nominated for the prestigious African Leadership Awards 2024, in recognition of our work in the Tech and Digital sectors in Africa.
I feel humbled to be selected among talented Africans in the Legaltech & Digital Space & I'm grateful our work is getting recognized๐๐ฅ
@StatiSense This list is a 2026 industrialization index by AfDB which scores per capita performance, exports, infrastructure, business climate, etc).
It prioritizes efficiency and progress not actual manufacturing or real world industrialization which is actually led by Egypt, Nig and SA.
@stanleyjonas@rashid_kay You want to mind that fellow? He/she has decided to be delusional. Let them be.
We all know the real history and the people that supported them. These ones are trying to rewrite documented history which is not even possible.
@DavidGQuaid Long overdue.
I sorta figured that the way nearly every SEO is going about posting FAQs as some SEO transformation point, Google might soon come for it. And they did.
The good thing is, FAQ schema might still work for the AI tools and AI SEO.
At least for now.
@killerC228314@NigeriaStories I thought you guys said NG didn't help SA at all? That it was all lies and fake propaganda?
How about now that we got the evidence? Why shift the goalpost?
@anthony_Uxer That's how it should be - collaborations but ours is different. It's more of suspicion and competition which is not helping.
The same habit is exported to work places overseas. We must do better if we want to have a seat on "global tables" as a people. We have the talents...
That "All man for himself" philosophy is one of the issues that has slowed the growth of our ecosystem...
Even Kenyans and a few other emerging tech ecosystems are more collaborative than we are. That perspective really needs to change if we want to build at scale
The real question isn't who struggles more.
The real question is why India has built thousands of agencies while Africa has barely had nothing.
"India didn't become dominant on Upwork simply because of a lower cost of living."
"They built systems. Agencies train juniors, share opportunities, build reputation collectively, and create a pipeline where today's freelancer becomes tomorrow's agency owner. Which I have seen multiple times."
A low cost of living doesn't automatically create agencies. Culture, collaboration, business infrastructure, mentorship, and long-term thinking do.
If cost of living was the main factor, every low-income country would dominate Upwork. That's clearly not the case.
The lesson isn't to compare suffering. The lesson is to study what works and build more of it.. that's why the Filipinos thrive so much in VA gigs.
An American agency trained me now I'm training others I have a lil agency ( struggling but we will get better )
Like the popular Nigerian adage " all man for himself" and guess what Indians that live in Africa even earn better than us even in Africa.
@TomolaGroup When you look at the value of SA's stock market at 1.5 trillion USD and NG's at 117, you'll realise the sheer volume of work that needs to be done before NG can catch up.
@chizzycore This is very important.
It gets you to answer real questions already asked by your target audience, making your book the go to material for them as soon as it drops.
Commendable strategy.
@magattew Preach!
Two truths can exist. Colonialism has it's many cons but it still isn't an excuse for the widespread underdevelopment most countries have experienced, 50 years after.
Take the damn responsibility for your development and stop the blame games.
@Heal_within96 Very important questions. Because anyone who'd rather blame others instead of taking responsibility to fix his house is not ready.
Life's not fair. But that doesn't mean you must sit down and cry because bad things happened to you...
Africa was not the only continent colonized.
@Atomic_Ferret@OrevaZSN That's what happens when search platforms deincentivize real human created content.
You keep demoting real human content, promoting AI search and sending less traffic to websites, eventually, publishers stop writing as it now makes zero sense...
That's what happens there!