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With nine in every ten new jobs in 2030 expected to require digital skills, graduates in Africa — and young women in particular — without information and communications technology training will be left behind. In this episode, we hear from two women working to change that - Unoma Okorafor and Baratang Miya.
Okorafor has founded the Working to Advance African Women Foundation, which is equipping girls with the science and technology skills of the future, while Miya has established the training and entrepreneurship organisation GirlHype to introduce girls from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds to coding, with graduates going on to work with major computer and software companies.
Catch up on the full interviews included in today’s show:
Hacking Africa’s next tech geniuses
Girls who code ‘can change the world’
Africa Science Focus, with Harrison Lewis.
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