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This tech startup is teaching programming to kids
This article was contributed to TechCabal by Victor Eyike via bird story agency. When Amina Isa walked into her classroom to mingle with her new classmates after relocating to a new town, she found herself completely isolated. Born with a hearing impediment and unable to speak, Isa communicated using sign language. No-one in the class of 40 knew what she was saying. Of the 25.5 million Nigerians living with disabilities, according to the United Nations, some 9.5 million are deaf.
What is the next frontier for Africa’s creative sector?
In recent years, Africa’s creative sector has grown significantly, with African music and movies reaching a more global audience and creators raking in millions of dollars. For experts who spoke at a panel session on the creative economy at the second Africa Social Impact Summit, the continent has only scratched the surface. Depending on who you ask, the global creative economy is a billion-dollar industry. Yet, Africa’s share of the pie remains significantly low.
Can streaming platforms solve Nollywood’s distribution problem?
In recent years, international streaming platforms have placed Nigerian films in front of global audiences, yet filmmakers still grapple with piracy and a local audience that cannot afford their films. The Nigerian film industry is one of the fastest growing in the world, with about 2,000 movies produced yearly.
As Nigeria's inflation pushes DStv, GOtv prices up, customers struggle Original
With the latest increase in DStv and GOtv packages, many Nigerians are exploring other alternatives while painfully adjusting to the hike. Customers using MultiChoice services in Nigeria have developed coping mechanisms to deal with price increases of its DStv and GOtv packages. On April 26, 2023, TechCabal reported that the pay-TV provider announced a price increase as a response to Nigeria’s inflation, which is .
Nexford, FKE, and ADMI partner for graduate recruitment in Kenya
The collaboration aims to alleviate constraints in the job market, particularly the extended average duration of five years for Kenyan graduates to find suitable employment due to a lack of relevant skills. Nexford University, a US-accredited online university, has partnered with the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) and Africa Digital Media Institute (ADMI) to help Kenyan graduates find jobs. The collaboration aims to address job market constraints.
With crypto payments helping African creators, new opportunities abound
Cryptocurrencies have provided creators with an avenue to receive payments directly from their audience without the need for intermediaries. A recently published report by Selar on The African Creator Economy and The Future of Work revealed that the use of cryptocurrency helped to enhance the ways creators do business. It also added that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have similarly helped in making it easier to monetise digital content like artwork, music, and videos.
Miva secures online university license Original
Sim Shagaya, the founder of uLesson, an edtech startup, has announced that they’ve been granted an online university license by the National Universities Commission (NUC). This is in line with uLesson’s plan to expand beyond K-12 into providing open-distance tertiary education.
Knowing and Being Known
I once read a paragraph by Simone Weil on attention. According to her, the act of gazing upon something or someone changes us as much as it changes the object of our attention. As I try to move on from a failed relationship, I recall Weil's words and realize that I had never truly received my former partner's attention.
How Education Can Empower Africans to Unleash Potential in the Creator Economy Original
After contributing to the launch of the AfroDroids collection, an NFT project which sold out at $3 million but soon stuttered, I started my own company, Faces of web3, in 2022. Lack of visibility was one of the reasons for AfroDroid’s lacklustre performance, so I naively attempted to solve the problem for the creator economy. Although I now understand the problem much better, I am no less motivated to solve it.
Notes on building an internal community: Faces of web3 case study
If community building brings people together for a shared purpose, then what greater community is there than the company? At Faces of web3, my job as CEO was “do whatever it takes to help the company scale”. I got this from Patrick McKenzie, even before I knew what that would mean in practice. Our goal at Fow3 was to onboard creators to the world of Web3 and promote the discovery of creators from diverse communities.
Sheila Darcey is creating a healing space in the Metaverse.
Image by Frank Okoro A series of unrelated events that I experienced in December 2021 left me longing for a change. The first one was a stubborn cough which had me choking and gasping for breath. After a series of tests, I discovered that I had COVID. I lived alone, so isolating myself wasn’t an impossible task. I needed to treat the physical symptoms as well as the despondent feeling that accompanied a COVID-19 diagnosis.
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