This Startup Trains Africa's Elite Coding Apprentices For Giants Like IBM & Microsoft

For-profit education venture Andela pays its students to learn.

As a teenager growing up in Lomé, the capital of Togo, Faiçal Tchirou taught himself to code at a cybercafé. He wanted to help his mother manage the small pharmacy she owned. Prescription orders, inventory levels: Piece by piece, he learned how to create the operational software she needed. "She's still using it," he says with pride.

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