“Five years ago, when I first sought seed funding, there was no one in Nigeria willing to invest in an online Nollywood digital platform of any sort. I couldn’t get anyone to understand the nature of what I was attempting, or even the value. No one.”

So says Jason Njoku, now probably Nigeria’s best-known tech entrepreneur, the man who has scaled Nollywood on-demand TV platform Iroko across the world. A first-mover in what is now possibly Africa’s fastestgrowing tech scene, Njoku has seen how things have changed first-hand.