GetBundi Takes Digital Learning to Youths on Lagos Streets

In a move that turned out to be truly remarkable and innovative, a team of GetBundi Education Technology staff has imparted digital skills to over 200 Nigerian youths right on the street.

The team, led by Osita Oparaugo, founder and CEO of GetBundi Education Technology, met the youths at the public playground in Gbagada, Lagos State, and taught them in batches.

The youths learnt cinematography and video editing using nothing more than their mobile phones, and they were taught in English language and Pidgin. They made and edited videos with their phones.

Speaking on the development, Oparaugo emphasized the need to take learning, especially digital learning, beyond the classroom and also to present it in a language that is accessible to the learners.

“When learning becomes accessible, relatable, and culturally rooted, young people engage as creators, not merely consumers of knowledge,” Oparaugo said.

“This is the future of education. Not confined to a classroom, but active in communities. Not driven by fear of failure, but by curiosity and imagination. Not restricted by language but expanded through it,” he said.

The GetBundi founder said the reality of Africa being the world’s fastest-growing mobile phone market, where young people are far more likely to own a mobile phone than to have access to a computer, a library, or a stable school system, presents an enormous but often overlooked opportunity.

“If the mobile phone is the most available device, why isn’t it the most utilized tool for learning? If young people are already creating content, connecting socially, and exploring ideas on their phones, why aren’t we delivering structured, empowering education to the same device?

“To unlock Africa’s next generation of creators, entrepreneurs, and innovators, we must take education to where they already are in their hands, not just in school buildings,” he said.

He stressed that language remains one of the biggest barriers to effective learning across Africa as young people are taught subjects in foreign languages they speak only partially or not at all, which limits internalization of knowledge.

Listing the advantages of teaching digital skills in indigenous languages, he said it improves comprehension, builds confidence grows, bolsters creativity explodes, and makes young people see themselves reflected in what they learn.

“A learner who understands fully is a learner who can create boldly. Localising digital education is not a cultural luxury. It is a necessity for equity, inclusiveness, and long-term development,” he said.

He said the path to closing the gap for out-of-school youths, empowering low-income and rural communities, and building a continent driven by innovation rather than dependency must begin with redesigning education from the ground up.

This, he said, entails delivering digital skills through mobile phones, teaching in indigenous languages, making learning culturally relevant, creating pathways that connect knowledge to real economic opportunity, and viewing youth not as passive recipients, but as active creators of solutions.

He said Africa’s future will not be shaped by infrastructure alone, but by imagination; not only by technology, but by access; and not only by education, but by rethinking what education truly means.

“Let us build a continent where every young person, no matter where they are born, has the tools, the language, and the confidence to thrive in a digital world.

“Let us meet learners where they are. Let us teach in the languages they understand. And above all, let us unlock the brilliance that already exists in every African community.

“The future of Africa is in the hands of its youth. Our responsibility is to make sure those hands hold not just mobile phones but opportunities,” he said.