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"I grew up wanting to be a medical doctor because I wanted to save lives, and I am doing that now, but not in the hospital."
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Blessing AbengTech is a leveler. It doesn’t care about your age, race, gender, count — Blessing Abeng
"Tech is a leveler. It doesn’t care about your age, race, gender, country, or anything like that. It only cares about your skills… You just have to start.” On democratizing access to technology education."
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Blessing Abeng
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Blessing Abeng is a Nigerian entrepreneur and co-founder of Disha, now acquired by Flutterwave. She is one of the founders of Ingressive for Good (I4G), a tech non-profit organization. In 2022, she won the African Achievers Awards of the year and in 2023, she was listed in the "Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30".
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"Tech is showing a new perspective on the African continent, showing how amazing and talented our people are as opposed to the general opinion of us as a poverty-stricken continent."
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"I think that Tech might be Our Way out of Poverty.""
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