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"What does that say about us as a society, about how much value we place on the education of our young people?"

— Funke Opeke

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We can’t leave an entire generation of young people without proper access to the internet.

"Being tied into that global ecosystem seemed to be the best route to ensure the long-term sustainability and growth of what we had built."

For anything you are trying to do, there are a thousand other people trying to do the same thing. Even if it costs a billion dollars.

"We were all young people trying to discover and create the best opportunities for ourselves."

While the developed world was fully connected, here in Nigeria the average young person didn’t know what the internet was.

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