App-based home tutor in the western African market is going to be a reality by February 2020. The company rolling out the device is uLesson, founded earlier this year in the central Nigerian city of Jos is making news. The start-up will be catering to the markets of Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia in the education sector. The content, which is being developed for the App is set to the West African curriculum. The company has spent considerable time for developing the library of content and is being developed by academicians, teachers and other people involved in the teaching profession to make the App student –friendly.
Very soon the company is expected to spread its operations to the East African side also and presently is marshalling resources for content development set for the East African syllabus for various courses. The app, developed by the professionals of Konga, the competitor of the e-commerce company, Jumia is revolutionizing education by slashing the cost of a high-quality home tutor substantially. The company claims that the cost of App based home tutor will be reduced to one-tenth of what one would have to spend earlier. A traditional tutor would have cost US$70 a month and the App-based tutor would cost only US$3-4 a month. The memory card embedded in the App would enable students to learn offline also. There are competitors in the market including Nigeria’s own Tuteria and Eneza Education. These development are taking place in Western Africa when the global market edtech market is likely to zoom to US $341bn by 2025.
