When Ikenna, founder of Coded Studios, a Lagos-based tech startup, was hiring junior developers for a new mobile app project, he was inundated with applications boasting degrees from top universities and portfolios filled with cloned GitHub repositories. But one candidate, Ifeoma, caught his attention, not because of her résumé, but because of her story.
She had no formal tech training. In fact, she had dropped out of university after her father passed away, taking on odd jobs to support her family. But in her spare time, she taught herself
