I went from rural Nigeria to an MIT-backed startup — with a Nokia phone

( CNN) I’m a 19 -year-old developer at an MIT-backed startup called dot Learn in Lagos, living in the bustle of Nigeria’s largest city. But until very recently “peoples lives” was quite different.

Just a few years ago, I was living in rural southeastern Nigeria and had nothing but a basic Nokia 2690 telephone — and a big dream to improve the world using technology.

Here’s my journey from “village boy” to the epicenter of West Africa’s tech boom.

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