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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. Nothing seems impossible anymore.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

Quick Background I was born in Nigeria, but mostly grew up in Dallas, TX. Some students didn’t have internet at home, and even if they did, there may only be one laptop, if any, that was shared by the whole family. Sidenote: our teachers, especially the teachers in underserved schools and communities, are national treasures.

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE AFRICAN GIRL. THE JOURNEY SO FAR…

Transformify

If you ask me I would say things are changing and so fast, the reason I am able to write this article and have it shared with a global community gives me hope. Over the past few years, there has been an increasing emphasis on girls and information and communication technology in the development sector. who writes from Nigeria.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

It depends on where you live, but every community has a Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce organizations typically do networking events. I’m on there as a mentor, and I’m mentoring a guy in Nigeria, who’s starting a business. People more and more now with the internet, now having been around for how many years now?

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I returned to Nigeria from Germany looking to create a dedicated (online) hotel booking agency for Nigerians, I wanted my company to communicate in the simplest terms possible what our value proposition was. We are committed to delivering affordable and convenient bookings to our customers anywhere in Nigeria.

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12 Questions: Meet Connie Zegers (The Netherlands)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community  in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly  activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. 12 Questions: Meet Tayo Adetola (Nigeria).'