The Facebook founder visited Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time on Tuesday, touching down in Lagos, Nigeria. He met with local businesses and developers in an effort to understand how Facebook (FB, Tech30) could "better support tech development and entrepreneurship across Africa," the company said in a statement.
His visit included a trip to a Yaba, known as the Silicon Valley of Nigeria, where he toured a coding camp for kids and met with about 50 local startup founders and developers at CcHub, a local innovation center.
Zuckerberg said "There's so much energy and so much potential here. I just want to walk around and meet folks."
Zuckerberg express his happiness for the running of Hausa language as one of the operating languages on facebook, and said that more nigerian languages will soon be available.
s Zuckerberg walked down the street, he drew loud cheers from passersby.
"Mark's visit demonstrates to all Nigerian developers and entrepreneurs that they've caught the attention of the tech world, and they are capable of succeeding on a truly global level,"
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