Nana Asmaʼu

My name is Amina, the host and founder of this podcast.

Today, I'm excited to welcome Asma'u Aliyu, a software engineer, a writer, a researcher, and a sustainability entrepreneur.

Asma'u, welcome to Roots and Algorithms, and I'm so happy to have you here.

So before we go into the main conversation for today, I would like to start with a simple icebreaker.

Tell us something about you that most people would never guess.

Um, so now when people hear software engineer, especially because you do a whole lot of things, they might imagine that, oh, you've had it all figured out for a very long time, but every journey starts somewhere.

So let's go back to the very beginning.

Who was Asma'u growing up before all of this? Where did you grow up and what kind of childhood did you have?