Nigeria: Meet the Nigerian Lady Zuckerberg Mentioned in Live Chat After Visit

21 September 2016

A little over three weeks ago, very few people knew Blessing Ebowe. Although a smart software developer, her fame was limited to friends, loved ones and her colleagues at Andela. Andela itself is another story altogether. Andela is a startup coding school, which recruits intelligent, local talent through a rigorous testing and interview process and then pays each student each month, with benefits.

Many of the recruits are young men and women in their mid-twenties about to enter the job market. With campuses in Nigeria and Kenya, Andela's business model centres on training these students to be proficient in software and web development, before making their talent available to companies around the world in need of engineering talent.

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