Author: Adebayo Adegbite
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A Royal Blueprint for Innovation: Oba Ladoja and Ibadan’s Tech Future
Being in my early teenage years when the newly crowned Olubadan, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja, began his tenure as governor of Oyo State in 2003, and only in my mid-teens when his tenure ended in 2007, one of the few personal memories I have of his time was his nicely tailored Ankara…
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Growing Ibadan’s Web3 Ecosystem
The rise of Web3 — the decentralized iteration of the internet — is reshaping how we think about ownership, value exchange, and trust in digital systems. While much of the global conversation focuses on cities like San Francisco, Berlin, or Lagos, there’s a compelling opportunity to seed and grow robust Web3 ecosystems in emerging tech…
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Why Tech Founders Are Sleeping on the Creative Economy—and How Web3, AI, and Cloud Computing Could Revolutionize African Creative Industries
In recent years, Africa’s tech scene has taken off. From fintech giants like Flutterwave and Moniepoint to innovations in logistics, agriculture, and education, the continent’s startup ecosystem is building solutions that leapfrog legacy challenges that have plagued the continent. But one sector has been consistently overlooked by tech founders: the creative economy. Despite Africa’s booming…
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The Future of Tech in Africa: Building New Markets from the Ground Up
The fact that Moniepoint has become the latest African fintech platform to hit unicorn status is a bit of old news. But the lessons that we can draw from how the startup achieved it will reverbrate for some time yet. Africa’s tech scene is heating up—but the real action isn’t just in the flashy startup…
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The Importance of Faith-based Tech Events in a Growing Tech Ecosystem
The conflict between Science, Technology and Faith/Religion has gone for all of human history, Even today it remains one the greatest causes of bloodshed and violence among humans. The argument often made by religious skeptics of course is that technology is in itself amoral and attempts by religious people to impose their faiths on science…
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Why Ibadan’s Tech Ecosystem Needs Small Tech Events Over Big Events
A few weeks ago, I was on a Twitter space with a number of Nigerian techies who were just sharing some lighthearted banter about their experiences at tech events. Unsurprisingly, most of them were based in Lagos, and so the issue that came up the most in the conversation was having far too many tech…
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