Zulaiha Dobia Abdallah, Founder and CEO of Divaloper
The founder and CEO of Divaloper, Zulaiha Dobia Abdallah, has challenged Africans to focus more on ICT, and strive for quality education to secure a better future for themselves, families and the continent in general.
Divaloper is a social enterprise that trains and mentors females in Northern Ghana to take careers in Tech.
She said Africans have a lot of potential, and it is time to actually expand and show the world the continent can make it, stressing the need to “embrace ICT and quality education to turn the fortunes of the continent around”.
The Divaloper CEO made the call during the third APRM youth symposium, dubbed “AU@20: Reposition the youth agenda for a transformative continent”, in Uganda. The objective of the symposium was to empower the youth in governance, leadership and development.
She noted that everybody has a skill that is supposed to be taught, stressing that “we do not want to localise it where only people in Ghana can access that education.”
“So, we are going to open the tentacles for people outside Ghana, and, hopefully, in the worldwide market where somebody in Ghana can teach somebody in Uganda something that they know about the Ghanaian culture or something in education,” she stated.
Opening tentacles
Ms Dobia Abdallah further emphasised the need to spread quality education since it is everyone’s focus to enjoy quality education.
“…there’s one thing that we know, that is the focus or the aim for everybody to go for quality education. You can go to school, but if you don’t have quality education that means that you are just wasting your years, and you will come out and you will not add any value to the universe,” she added.
In her view, Africans can maximise their potential, and “there’s one thing that I know in Africa is that we have a lot of potential and its time for us to actually expand and show the world that we have so much potential”.
“We have so much resources that the world needs currently, and so we need to add ICT and quality education to push this narrative so that people can actually start respecting us for the people that we are,” she added.
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