53,000 people showed up in Enugu to build something

The Enugu Tech Festival closed last week with 53,000 physical attendees, a global social media trend, and N10 million in startup grants distributed.

The theme was "Coal to Code: Energy in New Form." Enugu's coal economy is dead. The governor is betting the state's future on a digital one.

In the same week that politicians were being shot at in Benin City and a former governor was being held in Abuja, 53,000 Nigerians took four days to build something. That's not nothing. Nigeria's dysfunction doesn't pause. Neither does Nigeria's creativity.