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| 29.08.2025 | From analyst to advocate: Mentoring the next generation of data pros – A conversation with Samuel Iheagwam | 1. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your journey into data?
My name is Samuel Iheagwam, and I am a senior data developer & database administrator at Qore Technologies, where I am currently scaling data infrastructure for financi... |
| 28.08.2025 | The Benjamin Oyemonlan Talent Development Program launches to empower young Africans with in-demand skills | The Benjamin Oyemonlan Talent Development Program (BOTDP) has officially launched, in partnership with AltSchool Africa, with a mission to equip young people with the skills and opportunities they need to turn knowledge into sustainable inc... |
| 21.08.2025 | Africa: Apex Network Marks Five Years With Forum On Africa's Digital Future | Apex Network has marked its fifth anniversary with an industry event themed "The African Digital Economy: Building the Infrastructure for the Next Billion Users".
The gathering, held at the Landmark Event Centre, brought together ... |
| 10.07.2025 | Enugu State launches $100,000+ campus hackathon to unleash the next generation of African tech innovators | The Enugu Campus Hackathon 2025 is officially live and it’s more than just a tech event. This first-of-its-kind, state-backed innovation movement is designed to ignite a new generation of African technology leaders. At its core, the hackath... |
| 20.12.2024 | AltSchool Africa Partners with Malta’s STC Higher Education to Help Alumni Earn Bachelors, Masters degrees | As part of its ongoing efforts to democratise access to quality education for present and future generations, AltSchool Africa has announced its new partnership with STC Higher Education in Malta, a collaboration that affords AltSchool alum... |
| 06.12.2024 | Binance & AltSchool Africa partner to empower Africa’s young talent with scholarships | Kicking off in January 2025 to 31 December, this collaboration is aimed at addressing the digital skills gap in Africa by offering access to specialized education in fields such as software engineering, cybersecurity, sales, and content cre... |
| 29.10.2024 | Football For Good: Cowrywise Combines Sports and Social Responsibility to Raise 1 Billion Naira to Support Education | Lagos, Nigeria – This weekend, Cowrywise held the inaugural Cowrywise Super Cup, a groundbreaking event uniting 12 corporate teams with a shared purpose to raise ₦1 billion to support underprivileged children’s access to quality education i... |
| 24.01.2024 | Exclusive: AltSchool Africa launches in Kenya, its second-biggest market by revenue | AltSchool Africa, the Nigerian edtech startup that styles itself as the African version of the US coding bootcamp BloomTech, has set up shop in Kenya, its second biggest market by revenue. The company’s founder, Adewale Yusuf, confirmed the... |
| 14.12.2023 | 🚀Entering Tech #52: How to become a comms professional | Here’s how you can talk your way into tech!
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| 08.11.2023 | 🚀Entering Tech #47: The 21-year-old product design expert | How Abdulhakeem contracts for international startups and companies.
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| 07.06.2023 | FiberOne Broadband Exhibits at the Techpoint Lagos StartUp Expo in Lagos.
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Success! | FiberOne Broadband Exhibits at the Techpoint Lagos StartUp Expo in Lagos.
The Techpoint Lagos StartUp Expo, a highly anticipated event for the tech community in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole, recently took place with a burst of innovation an... |
| 19.05.2023 | If AI is taking over, how are Africa’s edtech platforms gearing up for adoption?
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Success! | As the demand for customised learning grows across Africa, Edtech startups in Africa are keen on joining the AI bandwagon. While some feel there needs to be more time for incorporating AI into learning, others think there’s no better time t... |
| 03.05.2023 | African startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 | Our global search continues, and today, we’re urging early-stage startups across Africa to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023. The application window closes on May 15 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Africa: The Startup Battlefield 200... |
| 23.02.2023 | Africa’s educational system is broken. Can digital learning help fix it?
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Success! | Education takes centre stage in conversations about Africa’s prosperity. The rationale for that is simple; formal education, especially at post-secondary levels, exposes its embracers to a world in demand of the knowledge hedged within the ... |
| 04.10.2022 | The Startup Battlefield 200: Education, security and space edition | The collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200 presented by Capital Connect by JP Morgan is nothing short of amazing. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final ... |
| 28.09.2022 | 🚀Entering Tech #005 – How to become a product designer | Who to follow on social media
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| 23.02.2022 | Digitising informal retail in Africa | Share this article:
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Since inception, we at Techpoint Africa have contributed to the growth of the African tech ecosystem. From telling the stories of Africa’s entrepreneurs to facilitating conversations and connections, we’ve d... |
| 22.02.2022 | Women-focused credit facility and Africa’s developer ecosystem | Share this article:
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Statistically, Mondays are often the busiest day of the week, work-wise, for various reasons like giving status updates of the previous week, defining tasks for the new week, and generally making sure to start the... |
| 06.02.2022 | AltSchool Africa, a Nigerian ed-tech firm, has raised $1 million to develop an alternative school for Africans | With its flexible educational curriculum, Nigerian ed-tech startup AltSchool Africa has raised a US$1 million pre-seed fundraising round to address the persisting problem of talent shortage in the tech environment.
AltSchool Africa has rece... |
| 02.02.2022 | Quidax to Sponsor 100 students to meet increasing demand for African Tech Talent | …Partners with AltSchool Africa
Cryptocurrency exchange, Quidax, yesterday announced that it would be partnering with AltSchool Africa. The partnership covers sponsoring 100 students this year to learn tech skills including software enginee... |
| 01.02.2022 | AltSchool raises $1 million pre-seed round to ease young Africans entry into tech | A report from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Google last year estimated that there are currently some 700,000 professional developers across Africa, and half of them are concentrated in countries like Egypt, Kenya, Morocco,... |
| 01.02.2022 | Techpoint Pitchstorm alumnus, AltSchool raises $1m pre-seed to plug Africa’s shortage of entry-level talent | Share this article:
In the past few years, the focus on tech talent development in Africa has shifted from training entry-level talent to training senior talent. Also, the inability of the local education system to provide competent enginee... |
| 01.02.2022 | Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans | The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers.
One would be out of touch with re... |
| 20.12.2021 | Meet the 15 semi-finalists for Pitchstorm 3.0 | Share this article:
In November 2021, we announced applications for Techpoint Africa’s Pitchstorm, a pan-African startup competition focused on amplifying the work of startups pushing the envelope with world-class solutions.
Pitchstorm goes... |
| 21.10.2021 | TalentQL launches AltSchool Africa, to train entry level tech talent for free | Share this article:
African tech talent startup, TalentQL, has today, October 21, 2021, launched AltSchool Africa. The programme is the startup’s latest attempt to create a tech talent pipeline following the launch of Pipeline, it’s mentors... |
| - | AltSchool Africa, a Nigerian ed-tech firm, has raised $1 million to develop an alternative school for Africans | With its flexible educational curriculum, Nigerian ed-tech startup AltSchool Africa has raised a US$1 million pre-seed fundraising round to address the persisting problem of talent shortage in the tech environment.
AltSchool Africa has rece... |
