and one of his brothers or his uncles are working here and then he starts to learn how to repair mobile phones, right? anthony: right. tunti: and sometimes i tend to think they deal with trial and error, so your phone might just be a practice but anthony: right. tunti: yeah. anthony: but they get there eventually. tunti: they get there eventually, and that s the success story of almost all the people you see here. most of them came into this particular market with nothing. okay, this is anthony: oh, yeah, let s go get some food. tunti: exactly. anthony: pounded yam is the ubiquitous starch of nigerian cuisine. here served with egusi soup. a stew of goat meat, melon seeds, fish stock and chiles. this is very, very good. so, i ve heard this market
the way africa works. seni: as you can see, there are a lot of issues in nigeria today. the average nigerian is struggling for just food, water, clothing, shelter. we all believe that this will change, and we all believe that we will change that. in the u.s., for every software developer that s looking for a job, there are five openings, which means there is a mass opportunity to get these awesome people who are really smart and really driven to be able to take on africa s challenges. iyinoluwa: but that s what s special about this place. i mean, most people kind of resign to the reality that they have. we re creating an alternate reality where there is always going to be power for you to do your work. anthony: africa, it should be stressed, is home to seven of the ten fastest growing internet populations in the world, with a huge young and mostly untapped labor pool of eager and ambitious people. iyinoluwa: the impact in a very short period of time, it s incredible, before we
they should be made. iqou: this is called ewedu, juiced nigerian leaves. anthony: ewedu is a soup from the yoruba tribe. crayfish, chilies, locust beans and jute leaves. this is good. oz: have you had jollof rice? anthony: it s rice cooked with atim: tomato sauce. oz: spiced tomato sauce. it s almost like spanish red rice. anthony: jollof rice a staple across west africa. country of origin? don t get into that issue. it s contentious. all i can tell you is it s delicious. now who runs these businesses? atim: you walk in and you see an old lady sitting by the corner, her eyes are darting. iqou: yeah. you know she s checking, counting tables you know, has the girl brought back my money? so she sits there to control her money. anthony: in the back, you see a guy cooking big batches to
nigeria. find a niche, create a business, build a home, a school, a community. or look beyond to create a new society. andela, cofounded by iyinoluwa aboyeji and run in nigeria by seni sulyman, is a rigorous training program that teaches coders and engineers with the goal of creating no less than a continent-wide ecosystem of high value software developers. shalom: my mom has like a mobile shop, something like what s in computer village. that s where i grew up, like, she would sell mobile phones and they d fix it there, and she just used to run that. blessing: i came looking for a job, but the jobs i got, i said, no, i don t want to be a salesperson, i don t want to be a secretary. so that s why i got into programming. anthony: shalom and blessing are trainees in the program, people who will someday rewrite
and above all. now, i ll dream gig. now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america s largest gig-speed network. archival: queen elizabeth came to nigeria in 1959. the 33 million people of england s most prosperous african colony were ready for independence. anthony: a friend of mine sends me a text and says, are you aware of nigerian psych rock of the 70 s? man in black glasses: there was a war in the late 60 s that caused a whole shift in the sound because before the war it was high life. and after the war, it was rock