The Difficult Truth about Mentorship
One-on-one mentorship is a luxury most early-career African developers can't access. The honest answer isn't to chase a mentor. It's to find your community.
Saturday, February 28, 2026 Independent Writing
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Software, stories, and the world they're built in.
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The state of payment apps in Ghana 2019
Ghana has dozens of payment startups competing on a broken foundation. More apps won't fix the infrastructure. That requires political will, not more venture capital.
I moved my blog from Medium, here is why
Medium's partner program requires a Stripe account. Stripe isn't available in most of Africa. That quietly excludes African writers from the algorithm. So I left.
The Idea
A noisy WhatsApp exam group and a frustrated class prefect sparked the idea for Chanl, a cleaner way for groups to communicate.
Trash Apps from Africa
African apps fail not because of where they're made, but because code alone isn't enough. A challenge to put design, UX, and the user first.