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Farhan Yahya

I live in Ghana which is in the western part of Africa.

When it comes to tech, We got introduced to most of it when the internet got booming but the thing was that few were educated to a level of adapting to it. But guess what, for the past decade we've improved in technology as many other countries in the world. There used to be a huge fear of starting up a company but these days the number of startups has really increased with Jumia going for IPO and being listed on NYSE.

The reason our countries aren't developing as expected is the fact that our leaders being old timers don't have much interest in the tech world and are c҉o҉r҉r҉u҉p҉t҉.