In 1999, a handful of cybercafés in Lagos introduced young Nigerians to networked PC games like Counter-Strike and Age of Empires. It was a subculture—hushed, dimly lit, and mostly dismissed as play with no future. Two decades later, those same “playgrounds” have become the seeds of an industry positioning Africa as the world’s next gaming and creative tech frontier.
The Next Billion Players: Why Africa’s Gaming…
In 1999, a handful of cybercafés in Lagos introduced young Nigerians to networked PC games like Counter-Strike and Age of Empires. It was a subculture—hushed, dimly lit, and mostly dismissed as play with no future. Two decades later, those same “playgrounds” have become the seeds of an industry positioning Africa as the world’s next gaming and creative tech frontier.