Jack Dorsey also visited
University of Lagos, where he met with students and the Vice-Chancellor
Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe, a professor of botany.
Co-Founder and CEO of
Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has left Nigeria after four days of visit to Lagos and
Abuja. Mr Dorsey aptly announced his departure on Monday, of course via
Twitter.
In another tweet, he
thanked his hosts and expressed the hope ‘to be back soon’.
During his visit, part of
his listening and learning tour across Africa, Dorsey interacted at several
fora with Nigeria’s growing tribe of techies and visited Nigeria’s former
finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who is now on the board of the company.
With Okonjo-Iweala, Dorsey
also interacted with some young artists in Lagos, whose works he showed on his
handle in several tweets.
At one of his sessions
organised by Techpoint, Dorsey ran into a Nigerian app developer, Dara Tobi,
who had developed an application that can capture reactions to a tweet. Dara
was offered an automatic job with Twitter. He visited Art Cafe, where he had a
morning of conversations with incredible Nigerian builders.
He also visited Andela. At
every turn, Dorsey made tweets of all the encounters in Nigeria.
The visit was Dorsey’s
first to Africa’s most populous country. He is scheduled to visit Ghana,
Ethiopia, and South Africa this month.
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