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BlogPersonalMay 22, 2026·7 min read

I Could Not Afford the Ticket So I Asked for One

I had the bus fare. I had the accommodation. The ticket was the one thing I could not manage. So I wrote an email I almost did not send, made the case for why I deserved to be in the room, and waited. Two organizations said yes. This is the story of what happened next.

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BlogIndustry InsightsMay 13, 2026·5 min read

What Traveling Broke Taught Me About Stablecoins

I have accounts with National Bank of Malawi, Standard Bank Malawi, and NBS Bank. In my experience, accessing money internationally has been extremely unreliable. Sometimes cards do not work online. Sometimes transactions fail abroad. Sometimes you are limited to very small allocations that disappear almost immediately. You have money. The money exists. But accessing it outside the country becomes its own battle. So eventually, like many travelers, freelancers, and remote workers across Africa, you start relying on informal crypto networks to access liquidity internationally. You send kwacha locally and receive USDT through trusted intermediaries. Sometimes it is instant. Sometimes you wait while liquidity is sourced. Sometimes the rates are painfully high. But when traditional systems fail you, you move toward whatever works. That was me. And if I am being honest, that is still me whenever I travel.

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BlogPersonalApril 7, 2026·6 min read

The Accidental Organisation

I founded Women in Tech Malawi with a hashtag. At the time, I didnt have a strategy or a roadmap. I only had a thought: when someone searches for women in tech from Malawi, my posts should come up. What followed was three years of pretending it was just a community group while quietly running an organisation, mentoring people I had never planned to mentor and fighting an imposter that refused to stay quiet. This is a story of how I stopped running from what I had actually built

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BlogCareerMarch 17, 2026·6 min read

Day 1: What I Actually Learned Starting My Blockchain Engineering Journey

I gave myself 90 days to go from zero to job-ready as a blockchain engineer with just a structured roadmap, one project built from the ground up, and a daily log of everything I learn. Day 1 was about understanding what you are actually building on before writing a single line of code: how Ethereum differs from Bitcoin, what a transaction really contains, why gas exists, and how I mapped out the architecture of the project I will be building for the next three months. This is that log.

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BlogTutorialMarch 15, 2026·15 min read

Building Impactful Solutions with Google Cloud

Most developers build things that work on their machine and stay there. Not because they lack talent or ideas, but because nobody showed them that the gap between a local project and a globally accessible product is smaller than they think. Cloud computing closes that gap. And you are already using it.

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BlogIndustry InsightsMarch 10, 2026·13 min read

Finance is Being Rewritten.

Africa's financial infrastructure is being rewritten right now, not in the future. I spent Day 1 of the Inclusive Fintech Forum in the room where that conversation is happening. Here is what I learned.

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