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Profile: Abdu Sekalala – Ugandan student makes a fortune building Apps
Abdu Sekalala. PHOTO/File
Meet Abdu Sekalala a 22-year-old Ugandan IT student.
Sekalala has made a fortune from building mobile apps – benefiting from Africa’s fast-growing telecommunications market.
Sekalala designed nine global apps, competing with some of the world’s most popular applications.
“We have word book which is a dictionary and the Tutu translate which is basically a translator and then there is world sports which is a sports application for soccer fans,” Sekalala told Reuters.
The most successful include Wordbook, earning him US $1.25 for each time it’s downloaded. Multiply that 300,000 times – and the student is US $375,000 richer.
Sekalala, who is still studying IT at college, took a Nokia training course last year. The mobile phone giant now sells his apps in its specialist Ovi store.
