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From think pieces and loud thoughts, I'll dive into various insightful commentaries where I share my perspectives on current events, trends, and important issues.

you don't have silicon valley's problems

ask a young founder here (Nigeria, Africa) what they're working on, and you'll get an answer about the stack. react or vue. ios first or android. which cloud, which database, whether to go serverless. all real questions. none of them the one that decides whether the

navigating life through positive reinforcement

The message that greeted me every day back then in university was posted on my dorm room door. I was grateful and still am for these words. This message gradually shaped my life, changed my views about myself, and eventually helped lay a good foundation for me to have a

God & quantum mechanics

Physics is the closest man has come to unravelling the supernatural. In Quantum mechanics, there's something called the principle of entanglement. It's a phenomenon where two or more particles (at atomic/sub-atomic levels) become linked in such a way that the state of one particle

china doesn't want a currency. it wants the role

a european company sells something to a buyer in shanghai. neither of them is american. and yet the price they settle on, the rails the money moves over, and the margin left at the end all bend to a decision made in washington that neither had a hand in. that&

the agricultural value chain, challenges and digital opportunities in Nigeria

Although highly underdeveloped, Nigeria's agricultural value chain is estimated to be worth $85 billion. Africa holds 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land, and 13% is in Nigeria, with 82 million hectares of arable land. So far, only 34 million hectares have been cultivated. Once the

jump starting a marketplace - “the chicken and egg problem”

every marketplace starts with the same standoff. buyers won't show up until there's something to buy. sellers won't show up until someone is buying. no demand without supply, no supply without demand, and a founder standing in the middle wondering which side to bribe

twelve pillars of africa's future

every so often, someone declares that this is africa's moment, and the declaration tends to age badly. so let me not declare anything. let me just lay out the forces, twelve of them, and you can decide how much to believe. growth in Sub-Saharan Africa rebounded to