Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has paid a surprise visit to Nigeria this week on his first trip to Africa.
Zuckerberg said in the energy here is amazing and I’m excited to learn as much as I can., using his time in the country to visit the Yaba technology hub in Lagos, meet with developers and partners, and explore Nollywood a statement has said.
According to Zuckerberg, he is excited to meet people, listen and learn and take ideas back to California on how Facebook can better support tech development and entrepreneurship across Africa
He made his first stop at Yaba where he joined a ‘Summer of Code Camp’ at the Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), known as the Silicon Valley of Nigeria.
Zuckerberg described his experience there as “amazing”.
“The energy here is amazing and I’m excited to learn as much as I can,” he wrote on his Facebook wall.
CcHub opened in 2011 and at the time didn’t even have an office. Five years later they fill three floors and the roof of a building. At CcHub people can learn how to code, developers can get help launching their first products, and find mentors and funding.
At CcHub Zuckerberg met with developers like Temi Giwa, who runs a platform called Life Bank that makes blood available when and where it is needed in Nigeria.
Life Bank saves lives by mobilizing blood donations, taking inventory of all blood available in the country, and delivering blood in the right condition to where it is needed.
He also met with some developers at Andela, an engineering organization that is touted to be responsible for building the next generation of technical leaders in Africa.
Zuckerbeg who has met with some techpreneurs sid he looks forward to meeing more till his one week visit ends.
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