African Tech Does Not Have a Talent Problem. It Has a Tooling Problem.

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Dick Edidiong Bassey
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I have worked with capable professionals across finance, insurance, healthcare, and logistics. Senior professionals with decades of accumulated pattern recognition.

These people are not the problem. The software is the problem.

Rigid legacy systems that cannot handle modern workflows. Calculations done in Excel because the system "doesn't support that structure."

The talent is there. The systems are failing the talent.

Fix the tooling. The talent takes care of itself.

— Dick Bassey | DevDick | 2021