The tech entrepreneur wants to improve education using tech tools. Thanks to his startup AltSchool Africa, he helps develop tech talents in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole.

Adewale Yusuf (photo) is a Nigerian tech entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of edtech startup AltSchool Africa.

The startup, launched in 2021, is open to anyone willing to acquire tech skills and start a professional career in the tech industry. It is based in Kigali, Rwanda.  It adopts a modern approach to training by delivering courses directly related to the learner's chosen field of study with a curriculum that combines theory with hands-on practice to turn anyone into a top software engineer within a year.

According to Adewale, some startups are willing to take AltSchool Africa graduates as interns. "We’ve signed up some of the best startups on the market, and that’s one of the most exciting things about what we’re doing," he said in January 2022 when his startup raised US$1 million in pre-seed funding.

He got the idea to launch AltSchool Africa when he was managingTalentQL, a start-up he founded in 2020 to hire, develop and manage talent remotely for global companies. At the time, he realized that there was a big gap in the foundational knowledge of some of the software engineers who were going through his company's vetting process. So AltSchool was launched to solve that problem.

The serial tech entrepreneur is the co-founder and former publisher of Techpoint Africa, a  media platform dedicated to startups and innovation in Africa.

He is also a Techstars Mentor and board advisor for Life Beyond Disability Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights and empowerment of people living with disabilities in Africa. In 2016, he founded Techpremier Media, the publisher of Techpoint Africa. Three years earlier, he had launched OnedotPhoto.com, a photography company he served as the lead photographer till 2017.

The entrepreneur also worked for the IT services company Danami Nigeria as a  quality assurance & UX tester between 2011 and 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was a blogger for OTEKBITS.com.

Melchior Koba