{"id":259814,"date":"2021-05-26T21:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/startup-teaches-young-nigerians-to-code-on-smartphones\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T21:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:35:44","slug":"startup-teaches-young-nigerians-to-code-on-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/startup-teaches-young-nigerians-to-code-on-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"#Startup teaches young Nigerians to code on smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Startup teaches young Nigerians to code on smartphones<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Samuel Anyaele regularly tells his students that everything they need to write a software code can be found on their mobile phones.<\/p>\n

He writes HTML codes on his phone, which are displayed on a monitor in a tiny classroom in Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s megacity. His students look up at the big screen and down at the smaller one in their hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are effectively giving them a tool to work whether they have a PC (personal computer) or not,\u201d said Anyaele, who runs three-month courses.<\/p>\n

Coding skills are seen by many young Nigerians as a way to earn money from clients based anywhere in the world. Job opportunities are scarce in Nigeria, a country of 200 million inhabitants where two-thirds of people aged 15 to 34 are either unemployed or under-employed.<\/p>\n

Anyaele, who runs free classes for beginners and charges $210 for courses aimed at professionals, works for one of many Lagos companies offering to teach aspiring software developers. The most widely known is Andela, a software training company, that has received funding from Facebook<\/a>\u00a0CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s foundation.<\/p>\n

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Samuel Anyaele teaches coding using a phone in Lagos, Nigeria, May 19, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cIf you don\u2019t find jobs locally, there are international jobs,\u201d said Joseph Agunbiade, founder of Univelcity, which also provides training.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s\u00a0$200 million acquisition of Nigerian fintech firm Paystack<\/a>\u00a0by Silicon Valley giant Strip<\/a>e and the $1 billion valuation of local payments company Flutterwave, have shown what is possible.<\/p>\n

Chinonso Okafor, 20, one of Anyaele\u2019s students who is now building websites for clients, said using his phone means he can continue working after his laptop runs down when the electricity cuts out.<\/p>\n

But some people struggle to see phones as anything more than an entertainment device, said Anyaele, who identified that perception as a mental block that many fail to overcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re assuming it\u2019s something childish, or something that isn\u2019t professional,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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