Stax, a fintech product helping people send money offline and created by Hover Developer Services, has concluded sessions on how Africans could remain financially buoyant this year.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, women constitute about 30 per cent of the tech professionals. While most females see courses in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), as difficult dreadful, cultural background of African countries has deprived females from competing with their male counterparts in school, a development that has drastically reduced the number of female students taking courses in STEM education, which is the basis for Financial Technology (FinTech) skills. In spite of the setback, few females are making waves in the FinTech industry in Nigeria and in West African countries. In the past five years, West Africa’s tech scene has witnessed a boom, with a dramatic increase in innovators and tech entrepreneurs aka ‘tech-preneurs’ using technology to provide simple and accessible solutions to everyday problems. From payment services to apps helping people grow their savings and making it easier for Africans to partake in the global scramble fo