Many fragments of a whole: unmasking Nigeria’s tech industry

“Things don’t work like that here,” someone in the audience responses as Gareth Knight, founder of popular tech conference Tech4Africa, talks about the need to learn on your feet. There seems to be an underlying negativity when it comes to the tech ecosystem in Nigeria. There’s a sense that it will always be a struggle and a hustle. One with no glorifying future in sight.

I am at lunch with three startups, one has a solid footing on the market and well on its way to becoming an SME, another tried a few things but reckons this new thing is the ticket and the third sits across from us as it tries to convince us of its market share. What followed was as an almost arrogant display of “I know what I am doing and trust me, it will work”.

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