Nzube Ezudo writes:
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I put up a tweet a couple of days ago with a picture I took in an Abuja Market (Nigeria), and the response I got made me thinking if people really know where the value in the African market is. The tweet is below. Most of the money in the African market is in places like this. Better folds your sleeves & fasten your heels if you want to compete. https://t.co/EXFRNq5gO8
In Nigeria, a great deal if not all still happen offline. From food, to clothes to media. Yes media, people still go to markets to load music to their phones. We in the tech community almost forget to remember that there is an underlying factor why we feel technology is accessible and everybody should be able to use it. This underlying factor is LANGUAGE. For the most part the language of the web is English. Just imagine if in Nigeria, the web had pockets where the language was Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and a host of other languages native to us. Adoption of smartphones and the internet might improve because finally its useful to us.