In today's episode, we have another amazing guest, Charlene Hunter the founder of Coding Black Females. Coding Black Females is a nonprofit organisation that aims to provide opportunities for Black female developers through meetups, events, and more. The organisation has partnered with companies such as Monzo, Conde Nast, BBC and more.

In this long and exciting chat, Charlene tells us about managing the organisation during this coronavirus pandemic, her love for Maths and Computer Science, and how she started Coding Black Females. Charlene was exposed to tech from a very young age, coming from a family filled with techies and playing with the BBC Micro computer at school. She tells us about this remarkable experience. We also discuss the systemic racism and biases that exist within the tech industry and how we can encourage more black kids to get into tech. There is a lot of interesting topics discussed so be sure to listen.

If you want to support Coding Black Females, visit their website at https://codingblackfemales.com/supportus to find out how.

Stay safe everyone

Quadrithm

---------------------Book Recommendations----------------------------

Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern (Journal of African Civilizations) by Ivan Van Sertima

African Mathematics: History, Textbook and Classroom Lessons by Robin Walker and John Matthews

What's good!

In today's episode, Brandon and Wal2.0 provide you with some tips they've learnt from the past decade that has helped them. Brandon shares ten life tips he has learnt from the previous decade and Wal2.0 shares five life tips as well as five tech tips.

They hope these tips are as useful to you as it has been to them.

Thanks for listening,

Quadrithm

Hello guys! Our first Quadcast in Nigeria and expect more to come. In today's episode, Brandon has a chat with another astonishing guest, Michealpreneur, a serial entrepreneur from Nigeria. Micheal tells us about his journey from starting seven startups to getting poached by an accelerator company and his latest venture Druve.

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did, peace.

We're back with another astonishing guest, Tara Ojo. In today's episode, Tara tells us about her journey from studying Multimedia Computing to becoming a tech lead at Future Learn. We also talk about leadership and her effort to get young black kids into STEM and more.

Happy holidays!

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STEM (schools): https://t.co/datz4FvMSs

Radical Candor: https://t.co/SsdMEUq8mg

Lead developer conference talks:  https://t.co/OBJASfB05U

In today's episode our first ever guest, Blessy, talks about graduating from university with an Electronic Engineering degree and then securing a role as a software tester. He tells us about his experience of studying Electronic Engineering, why he transitioned to software testing, how he got the role, and more.

In our Tech in Africa segment, we talk about one of Nigeria's hottest haulage startup, Kobo360, and their recent $30 million funding round. We also talk about Africa's promising Free Trade Agreement and the impact it will have on companies like Kobo360.

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https://techcabal.com/2019/08/08/africas-billion-dollar-free-trade-agreement-offers-hope-but-hard-work-lies-ahead/

https://techcabal.com/2019/08/14/kobo360-raises-us-30m-sets-its-sights-on-the-1-3-trillion-intra-african-trade-opportunity/

https://techcabal.com/2019/09/03/kobo360-officially-launches-in-kenya-amidst-an-increasingly-competitive-landscape/

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/can-africa-s-free-trade-agreement-transform-the-continent-28176

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/11/africa-free-trade-what-is-the-afcfta.html

In today's episode, Wal2.0 and Brandon talk about their experience with the programming language Java. They discuss how they overcame their problems with Java and also provide tips for anyone who is currently learning Java or any other programming language. In the Tech In Africa segment, they discuss Ethiopia's desire to become an African tech hub. However, there is one thing stopping Ethiopia from doing so, listen to find out what it is.

Peace ✌🏾

In today's episode, we discuss some of the results from Stack Overflow's 2019 Developer survey. We highlight our opinions of the results and discuss what they mean to the development community. In our tech in Africa segment, we discuss the launch of Africa's first AI lab in Ghana. We also discuss the potential of AI in Africa and our opinions on why Ghana was chosen. 

We hope you enjoy this episode, peace!

Resources

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/14/africa/google-ai-center-accra-intl/index.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/14/africa/google-ghana-ai/index.html

https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/10-inspiring-facts-moustapha-cisse-google-ai-ghana-pioneer-lead/ 

In today's episode, we talk about mobile phone designs and the next wave of mobile phone designs, foldable phones. We then progress to briefly discuss the problems that could arise with foldable phones and web development. To round of the segment, we talk about the innovations we would like to see on mobile phones but haven't been implemented yet. In our Tech In Africa segment, we talk about the transformation of Rwanda's economy and discuss the great things they are doing with technology. We conclude with discussing our future aspirations for Rwanda and other countries in Africa.

Thank you for listening,

Peace!

In today's episode, we discuss whether everyone should learn to code given the huge prominence around this topic. We also talk about the amazing Betelhem Dessie, Ethiopia's young tech genius who is doing incredible things with tech in Ethiopia and Africa. We then segue into a very interesting topic about the word "genius" and why we think it is normally attributed to males.

/*Useful Links*/

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/11/africa/ethiopian-ai-tech-coder-betelhem-dessie/index.html

Welcome to our first episode of the new year! We know many people will have new year resolutions they wish to commit to and some people may want to pick up a new skill or learn something new. For this reason, Brandon and wal2.0 will provide some of the resources they use to learn programming and UI/UX followed with some tips.

In our tech in Africa segment, we will be talking about the amazing Funke Opeke. Funke Opeke is a Nigerian electrical engineer and CEO of MainOne. MainOne is a broadband infrastructure company that provides innovative telecoms services and network solutions across West Africa. In other words, Funke is known for powering broadband across all of West Africa. We also talk about Africa's overlooked business revolution which was inspired by a McKinsey article (link below).

We hope you enjoy this podcast episode.

wal2.0's resources:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIe-61Y8C4_o-zZCtO4ETQ

https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston

https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

https://www.codecademy.com/

https://teamtreehouse.com/

Brandon's resources:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSkoolRocks

https://www.youtube.com/user/JesseAtomic

https://design.google

https://www.reed.co.uk/courses/

Additional links:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/middle-east-and-africa/africas-overlooked-business-revolution

https://www.mainone.net/leadership/