year's winners of Google's coding
challenge, becoming the first African to
do so
- This is despite not having internet due
to government shutdowns
- He is scheduled to travel to Google's
headquarters in June this year
A Cameroonian teenager is among this
year's 34 winners of Google's annual
coding challenge for young
programmers, becoming the first
African to do so despite not having
internet in his region due to
government shutdowns.
17-year-old Nji Collins Gbah was
forced to ask his uncle for money to
travel from northwestern Cameroon,
where the government has shut down
internet due to unrest, to a French-
speaking town where internet was
available so he could take part in the
challenge.
Nji's father jokingly says he used to
punish him for spending too much
time on the computer and had to lock
it away sometimes to force him to
focus on his studies. Now he is
thankful that all that time was not in
vain.
Nji is scheduled to join his fellow
winners from across the world on a
visit to Google's headquarters in
California in June this year.
More than 1,500 young programmers
aged between 13 and 17 and drawn
from more than 60 countries took part
in the challenge.
Culled from Naij.com
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