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Tomi Walker
Director @ Sage Institute
Lagos, Nigeria
Tech bro and change agent. Champion of radical ideas. Ex-Head of Product @ ImaliPay. Co-founder TQ (acquired),
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Built products that made waves — including what may have been Nigeria’s #1 mobile game. Once is a fluke, twice is legit. Working to do it again
Tech bro, innovation advocate, champion of radical ideas.
Former Head of Product at ImaliPay. Co-founder of TQ (acquired). Builder. Strategist. Change agent.
Currently leading Sage Institute — an academy equipping young Nigerians with in-demand digital skills, preparing them for the next decade of work, and connecting them with meaningful internships and career pathways.
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Posted on May 2, 2025, 8:41 p.m.
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I think a lot about Nigeria. I talk a lot about Nigeria. I write a lot about Nigeria. As someone who was born in the 80’s, moved away from Nigeria in my mid-teens and moved back in my mid-twenties, I lived experienced many versions of Nigerian life.I’ve lived the struggling doctors kid version of...
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Posted on Jan. 27, 2025, 1:04 a.m.
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Standing at the doorsteps to the world A young man awaits unprepared for life's journey Learned in dogmas and schemasUnaware of the complexities that lay ahead He knows not the confusion of thunderous stormsAnd the endlessness of seven seas A fool's errands on dark and onerous...
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Posted on Jan. 27, 2025, 1 a.m.
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The year was 2021. African startups had just raised over $2 billion dollars in venture capital and everyone was riding high on the euphoria of the success of startups with mega fund-raising announcement and even bigger valuations. Nigerian startups especially had had a fantastic couple of years, ...
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Posted on Jan. 27, 2025, 12:04 a.m.
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In an earlier article, I asked who was responsible for the failure of African states. In it, I argue that if anyone is to be blamed for our current state of affairs, it is Africa's intellectual class. The poor are too weak and uneducated to create any sustained change. The rich are too comfortabl...
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Posted on Jan. 15, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
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I’ve been building social products for 8 years. Social networks, social games, social payments and the like. I like to think of myself as something of an expert at social products.
I can’t remember how I discovered TwoCents but it was probably on Twitter. And like I always do when I discover so...
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Posted on Jan. 15, 2023, 4:08 p.m.
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On December 17, 2022, I got into an accident that quite frankly should’ve killed me. I want to believe that God spared me for a reason. But it also made me realize the fleetingness of it all,, the randomness of it all.
We work, we build, we hustle… and it can be taken away in an instant. We p...
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Posted on Jan. 14, 2023, 4:11 p.m.
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The world around us is a reflection of the human mind. This is something that I’ve come to internalize and come to believe deeply. You cannot separate an environment from the minds that make up the environment.
So what are the implications of this truth? It means that an environment that is b...
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Posted on Nov. 20, 2022, 10:19 p.m.
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Where 2 or 3 Africans are gathered, conversations about our countries are sure follow. And the conversations haven’t changed much for decades. We’ll ask ‘who is to blame for Africa’s lack of progress?’ and answers will range from colonial masters and their legacy, to a global conspiracy by the W...
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Posted on June 26, 2022, 9:01 p.m.
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Narrow vs wide: Early stage social products need to go niche first then expand slowly. Focus needs to be connecting people within a particular interest, and scaling that community up. In this case, the technology community is a natural fit for early adopters. Building for all is akin to boiling t...
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