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17 year Old Cameroonian Nji Collins Gbah Emerges as 1st African Winner of Google’s Coding Competition

Nji received news about 2 weeks after the internet went dead, that he had been selected as one of the 34 Grand Prize winners in the competition.
“I was really, really amazed. It meant my hard work writing a lot of code had really paid off,” Nji, who moved in with his cousins in the country’s capital, Yaounde to get internet connection, said.
“I wanted to get a connection so I could continue studying and keep in touch with Google,” Nji said.
Nji’s prize include visiting Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley for four days this June and meeting its top engineers .
“Hopefully I would like to work there one day, if that is possible,” he says.
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Nji who is currently working on building his knowledge of artificial intelligence, neural networks and deep learning, says Nji says he hopes to finish school in Bamenda, and then study computer science at a good university.
“I’m trying to develop my own model for data compression, using deep learning and machine learning,” he said.
“No, no-one,” Nji said when asked if anyone from the government had been in touch.
Source: Nji Collins Gbah via BBC

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