When Adedolapo Oguntayo-Williams arrived at a conference hosted by one of Nigeria’s premier banks in 2024, she was pushing her daughter in a stroller. There was no ramp. If a multi-billion-naira financial institution could overlook something as fundamental as a wheelchair pathway, what chance did persons with disabilities have inside Africa’s digital economy? She stopped waiting for corporate panels to figure it out. From childhood dreams of the cockpit and washing dishes in Cyprus on a state scholarship, to negotiating vendor contracts for Ruff ‘n’ Tumble and running global cybersecurity compliance remotely from Abule Egba, Lagos, Adedolapo’s career has never followed a straight line. Now, she is using that enterprise playbook to bootstrap LearnArk Inclusion Academy—a tuition-free tech training engine designed to move deaf, blind, and physically impaired talent from the margins into high-value tech roles. “Inclusion had to go beyond conversations and good intentions,” she tells TechCabal. “It had to translate into access, opportunities, and the ability for people to build independent lives.” In this edition of My Life in Tech, JOHN ADOYI charts Adedolapo Oguntayo-Williams’s journey from industrial engineering to building digital ramps for Africa’s most overlooked talent.
In 2024, when Adedolapo Oguntayo-Williams, an inclusion educator and technology advocate, arrived at a conference hosted by one of Lagos’s leading commercial banks, she was pushing her daughter in a…
