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Home / Inductees in the News / AFK Insider: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About Nii Quaynor
22 September 2016

AFK Insider: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About Nii Quaynor

African publication AFK Insider recently sat down with Africa’s ‘Father of the Internet,’ Nii Quaynor, to find out what we might not yet know about the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame inductee, and discovered 12 things that shed new light on his life and work.

Most notably, the publication reports that Professor Quaynor is worried that Africa is going to miss out on significant growth opportunities as a result of extremely low Internet user penetration there. Currently, the country posts Internet user penetration of only 9.4 percent, versus 90.6 percent for the rest of the world.

“Africa is about to miss a great development opportunity in much the same way [it] lost on the industrial revolution, unless serious and truly committed efforts are made by Africa to address the rapid expansion on the Internet-user gap between Africa and industrialized countries,” he told AFK Insider.

Other interview insights from AFK Insider:
“While studying in the U.S. during the civil rights struggle, Professor Quaynor was consistently reminded of his African roots and role in the African diaspora. He realized only Africans could liberate and develop Africa, and that the continent’s potential for participation in the global economy was enormous. His continuing studies were spurred on by a desire to acquire knowledge to contribute to his homeland.”

Read the full article here.

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