Building The Future with Dotun

Bastian Gotter is the co-founder of Iroko TV, one of the earliest, most successful and largest video on demand platform for Nigerian movies.

Bastian founded the business alongside with his university flat-mate, Jason Njoku, who is the CEO of the company, and a later guest in this show.

Season 3 Intro.

Telling the African story is not new. For a very long time, Africans have expressed the narrative of their culture, beliefs, fears and exploits using stories passed from one generation to the next.

What has changed is the medium through which these stories are told.

In this season I will be chronicling part of that story.

I will be starting with a mini-series that features some of the key figures that have built video on demand platforms specifically for African content.

Its been a great pleasure to do this. To have conversations with interesting, smart and awesome people who are shaping the future of Africa.

This show has been one of the most exciting things I’ve done as an entrepreneur. It’s fun and I get to learn from a lot of people.

We’ve now come to the end of season 2.

Prince Kwame Agbata is the co-founder of Coliba,

It is an early stage waste management platform that leverages on SMS to help users separate their waste, schedule and request a pickup and get waste picked at the comfort of users home.  Coliba pays the user for the waste generated.

Timothy Kotin is the co-founder of SuperFluid, a data solution platform helping  businesses to harness untapped potential through predictive data analytics, business intelligence and dynamic customer insights leveraging both traditional and alternative data sources.

Seun Onigbinde is the co-founder of BudgIT, a non-governmental organization that helps citizens access and understand public budgets.

BudgIT breaks down the national budget in simplistic charts, and track contracts and projects the government are working on.

This is a classic case of doing good with tech.

Opeyemi Awoyemi is a tech entrepreneur with 10 years experience in internet startup business development. He has founded and managed three technology startups including WhoGoHost, a web solutions company. He is also the co-founder of Jobberman.

Jobberman is Nigeria’s largest job search portal with over one million job seekers and 10,000 companies registered. Jobberman’s mission is to solve the unemployment problem in Nigeria.

This was a live podcast with an audience

Nasir Yammama is the founder of Verdant, an agritech platform that aims at providing agricultural data science, market information, managerial support, and access to financial services to rural farmers for improved food production using mobile phones.

Verdant though a simple low-cost technology, is solving one of the biggest challenges and transforming Nigeria’s agriculture sector.

Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet and author who launched her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, in the UK in May 2010

She is currently the director of Book Buzz Foundation, Nigeria- a non-governmental organisation whose main aims are promoting literacy through the creation of reading programmes for children and developing reading spaces.

Onyeka Akumah is the CEO and co-founder of Farmcrowdy, an agric-tech platform.

 

Farmcrowdy gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by connecting farm sponsors with real farmers for the purpose of producing high-quality farm produce.

 

Onyeka returned to Nigeria from India in 2016 and has since then worked with business like Konga, Wakanow, Jumia and Deloitte before going ahead to start his first business, QuickGist.