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Personalised stories about women building amazing careers and creating remarkable solutions across the African tech space.
Confidence Staveley: Many factors contribute to the gender gap in Tech
Confidence Staveley, an award-winning cybersecurity expert and the executive director of the Cybersafe foundation, is one of those…
A chat with Microsoft’s Adora Nwodo on career, content and teaching
At 25, Adora has achieved quite a lot and that is inspiring a lot of other women in the Nigerian tech ecosystem...
From Celtel to Flutterwave: Chilekwa Banda talks about becoming Zambia’s leading go-to fintech expert
"Looking back, I think becoming a digital financial services expert has always been an unconscious plan as I have been very deliberate in choosing the organizations I worked for..."- Chilekwa
How Loveth Chukwu is making crypto accounting seamless with Counti
"I set out to create this solution with the aim of building an application that is tailored for the blockchain sector..."
How Ada Nduka Oyom is building Africa’s largest community of women in tech with She Code Africa
"So far we have been able to train about 7,000 women via our programs free of charge. And, this data is from our programmes as a community and the programs organized by the different She Code Africa chapters across Africa..."- Ada
Mejero Emmanuella Kunu speaks on providing credit to SME owners with tech
Mejero told me that she never had any interest in the sciences or anything related to tech while in school...
Tale Alimi is bridging the financing gap for African women with Owoafara
Fara has about 70% women users compared to the about 30% of female participation that most companies record...
With DataGirl, Selma Ndi is helping over 3000 young women in Cameroon to acquire tech skills
Selma shares with us her journey from being a trained accountant in Cameroon to becoming a full-stack developer and subsequently founding the DataGirl...
Onyinye Olisah speaks on transition from traditional banking to VP at Budpay
For Onyinye Olisah, with over a decade of experience in the financial sector under her belt, switching to…
Philisiah Mwaluma speaks on starting out early in tech, empowering other women with Codeln
Philisiah Mwaluma has always been a tech sis, not only because she studied to be one at the…