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Tarnoff, Ben. 2017. “Tech’s Push to Teach Coding Isn’t about Kids’ Success – It’s about Cutting Wages.” The Guardian, September 21, 2017, sec. Technology.

AO: This is an important article to read together with much of the mainstream discourse about African techies and the proliferation of new programs to train them (e.g. "Africa is the future of AI Research").Read more

Okolloh, O. (2017, July 11). No Sacred Cows. Medium.

This brief Medium post was written by an influential leader in the Nairobi tech space, Ory Okolloh, who was a former co-founder of Ushahidi. In the post, she raises several points including that "we as a tech community must examine the series of events that led us to a point where an...Read more

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