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What is the most inspiring word you heard last year? Mine is: ‘Brilliance is equally distributed; opportunity is not’ from Jeremy Johnson, CEO of Andela.

Have you heard about Andela?

Andela Institute is an ed-tech startup based in Nigeria, Kenya and USA that finds the brightest young people in Africa, train them to be world-class developers, and connect them with employers around the world looking for top technical talent. Some of their developers have gone on to work with the biggest names in the tech industry like Microsoft, Udacity. A truly disruptive agent for social change, the company’s vision is to train 100,000 world class software Engineers by 2025. They have been This is unlike most companies out there that would rather take your money and offer yo Recently, a friend of mine shared links to mixtapes from the Director of Engineering at the Andela institute, Nadayer Enegesi (@CEO_RackCity on Twitter) and I am really wowed!! Here’s the link to the playlist on SoundCloud. It goes to show the amazing culture at the company. The tracks were done in-house by members of staff and the fellows (fellows are software engineers in training).

They are constantly sourcing for brilliant individuals and you can apply to join the next cohort at http://apply.andela.com.