Interview with Oluniyi David Ajao; MD Web4Africa Limited

Like I informed you in an earlier post: Lots but Found, I’m kick starting the interviews today and I’m doing that in a grand style as I have caught a Big Fish from the rivers of Nigerian Web Entrepreneurs; Oluniyi David Ajao. If you don’t know him then you must be new in this our area.

Oluniyi is a Ghana-based Nigerian young entrepreneur/blogger and Managing Director of a leading web hosting company, Web4Africa Ltd. He is a professional web developer who supports the open-source platforms and web programming languages; Linux, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML and web standards are amongst his favourites. He also has strong interests in mobile communications technology.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you; Oluniyi David Ajao. “Drum Roll”

DE: Please tell us about yourself; background, interest etc.?

David: I am Oluniyi David Ajao, a website developer based in Accra Ghana. I manage Web4Africa Limited www.web4africa.net and have experience with PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML and the like.
I spend a lot of time online blogging, writing feature articles, and networking during my free time.

DE: We’ll also like you to tell us about your site/blog/forum/start-up?

David: My blog at www.davidajao.com/blog/ is named after myself: Oluniyi David Ajao. I blog about Ghana, Nigeria, the rest of Africa, in the context of technology, politics, showbiz and business. I have been running this particular blog since 2005 and it is presently one of the most popular in Africa. It regularly ranks among the 20 most popular blogs on Afrigator.com

DE: Like how long have you been involve in this online thing and how
old is your site/blog/forum/start-up?

David: My personal blog is more than 4 years old but I have been writing online at www.mobileafrica.net before then.

DE: What impact would you say your site/blog/forum/start-up is making on it’s target audience?

David: I inform my audience by sharing useful information about web technologies, technology in Africa, and I stimulate intellectual debates about current issues.

DE: What was the inspiration behind the creation of the site/blog/forum/start-up?

David: My personal blog started as a platform to share my personal views on issues as they unfold.

DE: How have you been able to keep the inspiration alive?

David: 4 years is a long time on the Internet and for me to have blogged consistently since then, I am compelled to believe that I have kept the inspiration alive so far. More so, my audience are the best judge.

DE: What would you say is the secret behind the success you have been able to achieve thus far?

David: Consistence, frankness, timeliness in my blog posts.

DE: What have been the greatest challenge(s) you have face along the line and how have you been able to surmount them?

David: My biggest challenge with blogging is not the lack of ideas or content to blog about but find enough time to commit to blog. My activities with Web4Africa takes the bulk of my time. Despite that, I am doing my best to assign my routine to staff, where possible. This gives me some free time to focus on blogging.

DE: What do you think are the limitations still preventing you from attaining your most desired level of success (if any) and how do you intend to combat them?

David: Time.

DE: Frankly speaking, why do you deserted Nigeria for Ghana?

David: I never deserted Nigeria. I migrated at some point for personal reasons but nothing economic reasons as many would assume. I still visit Nigeria from time to time and always follow the topical issues in Nigeria.

DE: How is the Ghanaian Webspace/blogoshere compare with that of Nigerian?

David: Nigeria has a much larger population. Understandably, the scale of blogging in Ghana is lower but blogging is fast becoming a popular activity in Ghana.

DE: What are your views on the current trends within the Nigerian Webspace?

David: The Nigerian webspace is maturing fast in the areas of news delivery, e-commerce, blogging etc. Things can only get better.

DE: How do you think the Nigerian Web Space can be expanded/improved to the level that it would exert great positive impact on both the African/Global Web Space?

David: Nigeria needs stable electricity supply from the national grid to be able to make the amount of impact a country of its scale should make. In addition to electricity supply, the Internet connectivity offered by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) need to improve.

DE: Do you have any ongoing project(s) that we should watch out for?

David: I am committed to improve my personal blog and should launch a new look on my next birthday anniversary come 13th September.

DE: What advice do you have for aspiring entrepreneur/bloggers or people out there hoping to build successful business model like yours?

David: One sentence: Consistence is an ingredient of success.

DE: At edundayo.com we are passionate about readers’ opinion, that’s why we don’t mind exposing ourselves to criticism. So, do you
have any criticism against the site or the author and what advise do you have for us? Please, say it as it is, we can handle it!

David: Your blog already contains many of the ingredients of a successful blog: focus, consistence, a good layout, sharing tools etc. You can improve on the quality of the blog theme design.

DE: On a final note, what would you like to tell your users, fans, clients, readers and/or followers?

David: Look out for the best.

DE: Thank you very much, for your time and we wish you the best of luck!

David: You are welcome.

P.S: If you also have questions you’d like to asked Oluniyi, just add them here as comment and I guarantee you that; He’ll be around to answer your questions.