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Doctoral Student @ MIT
HR Manager @ Pernod Ricard Western Africa
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
Creative Director @ Thalia Bespoke Nigeria
Senior Writer @ TechCabal
Managing Director & Computer Science PhD Student @ The Diasporic Group & Cornell University
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International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer
Senior Lecturer @ The Technical University of Kenya
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Yele Bademosi
Investor @ Microtraction
I've known I wanted to go to Stanford since I was 11 years old when I read a book that said something like "having a degree from Stanford University is a big deal." From then on I had an almost problematic obsession with doing well in everything so that I would be admitted.Because I knew I wanted to go there, I worked really hard in high school to stand out from my classmates.
I went to a moderately wealthy high school, and competing academically and socially with people that have access to generational wealth takes strategy. I chose to take on 2-3 extracurriculars each year. Freshman year I was the president of the freshman class and captain of the freshman basketball team and played volleyball, Sophomore year I was a chair in the same student government, on varsity basketball and JV volleyball, and participated in the competitive mathematics club. Junior year I cranked up the AP courses, taking essentially everything AP, still playing on Varsity Basketball and Volleyball. Senior year I was captain of the Basketball team along with my other extracurriculars and APs.
There probably were other things, as this was over a decade ago. In terms of academic performance, I was ranked #8 in my class upon graduation with above a 4.8 GPA.Even though I had a strong record, I was still nervous to apply, and so I decided to apply to the Restrictive Early Action round, which means you cannot apply early to any other school, although you are not forced to attend upon acceptance. Luckily I was accepted, and decided to not apply to any other school
While I put myself in a good position to be accepted, nobody else at my school was, including those that had better academic records than me. This could be because of my application essay, in which I told the story of why I have 9 siblings in my family and how that has helped me grow as a person. I think the academic performance and the uniqueness of my story were helpful in standing out from the crowd of perfect transcripts.
Ifueko Igbinedion
Doctoral Student @ MIT
Thank you for your kind words Segun!
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
The African Commission in recent years have been doing enormous work to enable Africans understand their digital rights mostly through its yearly ordinary sessions which is mostly done in synergy with NGOs. A quick reference could be made to the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) in Banjul the Gambia , Digital Rights featured prominently at the African Commission on Human and people's rights 68th session. You can equally check on the outcome of the 69th session of the African Commission, issues relating to Privacy where seriously death with at the 62nd session etc etc ...
Arrey Ojong Collins
International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer
Interesting questions Cyrus...On the first question, I think it’s largely about perception and it varies from one Organization to the other. An example is HR is responsible for hiring and firing, but the truth is we only support the process to ensure fairness and consistency, the decision maker is mostly the Line Manager or the Functional Head.On the second question, for permanent recruitment, I will rather go for culture fit and train the individual, but if it’s a short term fix, then I will go for the highly skilled.On the last question, my advice is to always go above the legal requirements as much as you can...but it’s good that we have a compensation act in place, which at least serves as a minimum requirement especially in extreme cases like accident and death. However, it needs to be reviewed at intervals to align with current realities.The legislation I struggle with is ITF and I think it should be restructured
Dolapo Onasanya
HR Manager @ Pernod Ricard Western Africa
As I suggest above, this appeal to/for an African agenda is grand romanticism, not real politik. We know from theory and from empirical studies that top-down trickle-down approaches are unlikely to solve Africa's fundamental problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease. A look at AU for instance, suggests we are too focused on being like the UN, instead of recognising our resource constraints and cutting our suit according to our cloth.
But beyond that continental body, what is the value addition of the 12-odd bodies duplicating activities across the continent? Eight of the 15 ECOWAS countries belong to UWEMOA, the only divide being that the latter are Francophone. Among SADC's 15 members, 4 belong to SACU, and 8 belong to COMESA. Some of these countries belonging to multiple organisations, paying millions in membership fees, cannot even feed their people at home!
Good governance requires prudent management of government. The richer countries of Europe have a single primary membership body, EU...and NATO if you like. So why do we allow France to sponsor UWEMOA as a means of dividing ECOWAS?
African countries are burning money they do not have in such organisations; but they also burn money internally through corruption. The bottom line is the failure of good governance on the continent.
Dr. Othieno Nyanjom
Senior Lecturer @ The Technical University of Kenya
If Africa had not been colonised, I wonder where we would be today!!! Yet, given the globalised nature of the planet, I do not even see how that issue arises: today one can talk of neutral states, but in those days, a territory either colonised or was colonised on encounter.
Technological advancement defines what is 'better off', i.e. where people want to go... and colonisation set us off towards that better-off. But that 'better-off' is a dynamic situation, and tenure among the 'best-off' - whatever the globally accepted measure, this is a game of musical chairs with tenure changing with changes in various situations. This dynamism also applies among the developing countries which belong to the lower echelons of the better-off ladder, aspiring to haul themselves up it. So colonialism was a necessary evil...
While some of our founding fathers (sic) appreciated in the evil in - averse effects of - colonialism, they were up against those leaders who did not see that evil, and the mighty, white-washing force of neo-colonialism. Africa missed an opportunity to unite in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The colonialists and ex-colonialists divided and ruled: they convinced most individual African 'nationalists' that their best interests lay in going it alone. Contemporary pleas for African unity are mere nostalgic romanticism: corporate forces are more powerful that those of political idealism. That is the greatest adversity inherited from colonialism.
Dr. Othieno Nyanjom
Senior Lecturer @ The Technical University of Kenya
The goal of blockchain is to mobilise digital currencies. The link with energy supply is a far-fetched but not very much insignificant link. The structure of blockchain should be similar to that of internet communication (fluidity of data flux). Blockchain technology will be influenced more by economic transactions between energy suppliers and consumers in the energy sector. The blockchain technology issue is narrowed down to purchasing ability and mobility. Whether the energy is renewable or not, the question becomes relevant if "cryptos" are used to pay. Many countries already use the P-2-P transaction, which allows traditional currencies, bank cards, and crypto vendor platforms to be purchased (such as Binance without any publicity). When considering this question in terms of mining these coins, the CPU units, According to the Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, one bitcoin transaction consumes 1,449 kWh, or roughly 50 days of power for the average US household. Many African businesses consume more energy than this over the course of 50 days. As a result, it has no bearing on Africa's energy sustainability. Africa's most pressing issue is how to manage the energy it generates (how the laws work and how much people can buy).
I hope I've quenched your thirst.By the way, how many countries are to adopt a currency which doesn't satisfy the basis laws of currency credibility?
Loic Bethel Dje
Youth and Apex Performance Mentor | Initiator @ PureBreedSbe
Hi Ebenezer, I think this is a really interesting question because a farmer can take great pictures of his/her products and share it on Instagram. It's all about creativity and how you are able to tell a story. His/Her problem will be less about the platform and the ability to reach his/her customers but more about exposure, he/she should definitely not be #land though because that isn't their product, depending on their products, they can look at more popular hashtags like #greens #healthyeating #organic, etc. I have a cousin who is pretty much a farmer, he also makes juices from his products, but check out his page, they sometimes just post images of the farm and the produce - @simplygreen.farms. I hope this answers your question, if he doesn't feel free to clarify further.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
At the early stage, valuation is more an art than a science, first both sides have to want to do the deal, then is there an intersection between my maximum and their own minimum valuation, if there is then we do a deal, otherwise I try to connect them to later stage investors or we revisit when the company has made enough progress to get the valuation they want.
Another contrarian viewpoint, I don't think many companies that get started are venture backable, they may make good profitable software businesses but only 2-3% of software or tech-enabled businesses are venture backable. It's a function of how big the company can be from a revenue standpoint (at a minimum $25m/yr), which is a function of how big the market is ($100m+/yr and growing) and fast you can capture the market i.e. an adequate distribution strategy for the product offering.
For now, I am biased towards B2B & B2B2C offerings - consumer African startups have struggled to scale cost-effectively so we are looking for businesses that can leverage commercial / distribution partnerships to scale.
Yele Bademosi
Investor @ Microtraction
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