Nigerians have
always responded well to technology and we are a part of the increasing
progress of technology in the world, whether it has to do with being an
employee at a major tech giant in the world or maybe just doing something
innovative on social media
Some young
Nigerians have gone so far that they are part of those people who make big
decision at tech giants and they have become well known and respected all over
the world.
9jasiren team came across the profile of one of those
geniuses, Chukwuemeka Afigbo
and so many others who have become top echelons at
tech giants. Chukwuemeka Afigbo is a hardworking Nigerian man who works at
Facebook as the Strategic Product Partnerships for Facebook in the Sub-Saharan
Africa.
You may think
Afigbo got the opportunity to work at one of the biggest technology companies
in the world because he was just lucky or maybe because he did not grow up in
Nigeria. Before he became the Chukwuemeka Afigbo that we all know and admire,
Afigbo’s education was like every other Nigerian, he went to Command Secondary
School Abakaliki, Ebonyi state and Government Secondary School Owerri, Imo
state.
In 1997, he went
ahead to study Electrical Engineering in the University of Nigeria, NSUKKA,
Enugu state and graduated in 2002. He later went to Carleton University, Canada
in 2006 for his Masters degree in Engineering and Technology Innovations.
While at Google,
the genius developed a project called ‘Kesa’. Because internet is unreliable
and expensive in SSA, the project helped to provide access to content
developers around the region.
Even with all his success in the industry all
Afigbo thinks about is how to develop technology in Nigeria, during an
interview with, Lawerence Moroney, Google Developer Advocate, Afigbo expressed
that he got the name Kesa from an Igbo word which means distribute.
The tech genius
started working for Facebook in 2015 and since working there till now he has
focused his work on helping developers in Africa and the Middle East to
succeed. All Afigbo has ever done is to make Nigeria and the whole of Africa
grow in technology, he also played a huge part in Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to
Nigeria in 2016.
Afigbo is not a
genius who is all work and no play, he is also a family man, he got married to
his wife, Chioma Afigbo, in April, 2013 and they have a beautiful son together
Obichukwu Afigbo.
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