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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

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These applications came from 19 countries (including 14 African countries) and Yusuf said the company received the most entries from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. . 10,000, almost ~$20) to participate in AltSchool’s software engineering program, which starts in April. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

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And third, the providers of value-added services have facilitated access to a previously offline market. Second, customers of these agents see time, efficiency and financial barriers between them and the services they need significantly minimized. According to Sijake, Qwili currently processes $75,000 monthly GMV from its 500 merchants.