Hello again dear ones, First, let me start by thanking everyone who read and reacted/responded to my earlier article on Sub Saharan Africa’s tech talent problem. I learned so much from your reactions and the resulting conversations. …

The last 3 years have seen the African tech ecosystem grow in leaps and bounds with African (based/focused) startups raising more than $4B in 2021. This is more than the amounts raised in 2019 and 2020 combined. In the last 3 years we also saw a significant startup exit (Paystack)…

Some weeks ago I had my first Clubhouse speaker experience (practically my first real experience with the app) when I was invited by Lameck Mbangula to come and speak to a cross section of the Namibian tech community about Identity and Access Management (IAM). …

Recently my good friend and former classmate,Ikenna Uzuegbunam, asked me to deliver a short presentation to the undergrads at the Coal City University Enugu. The topic was to be one of my choosing within the field of entrepreneurship. …

Imagine that it is sometime around August 1997. You are in the room with Larry Page and Sergei Brin as they prepare to launch the Google.com website later that year having successfully piloted Backrub, the precursor to Google. Let us assume that they have figured out all the technical details…

Today marks the end of my last full week at Facebook. After 5 amazing years at Facebook, I will again quote the Igbo proverb : “Anaghi ano ofu ebe ekiri Mmonwu” Which has the literal translation : “One does not stand at the same spot while watching the dance of…

Because everyone has a “showed up” story — In 2019, my friend who lectures at a nearby university asked if I could host some African American students for a short tour of our corporate campus. After some back and forth we were eventually able to find time to make it work and the date was set. As I…

“Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.” — Igbo Proverb The above proverb popularized by Chinua Achebe , the late literary giant sums up my thoughts on the situation we currently face. The global pandemic caused by…