Elizabeth Kperrun is a 29 years old Nigerian entrepreneur, precisely a techpreneur and fashion designer and also a blogger. She developed AfroTalez, which is a mobile application that tells children’s stories with teach moral lessons.
The reason behind her app creation is to preserve some of the stories she was told as a child in eastern Benue state, Nigeria and due to her believe that a good story has the potency to influnce a child’s life positively.
“Sometimes, you can’t teach a child something by telling the child, ‘Don’t do this.’ But in the context of a story, a child can learn that somebody stole something and then something bad happened to them. Alternatively, someone did something good and they ended up really happy or really rich.”
She came up with concepts for the application, gathered folk stories that are educative and rooted in african culture, and also wrote the scripts, her business partner and husband Idamiebi Ilamina- Eremie does the animation while the rest of her team work on its development.
AfroTalez is designed for children from the age of two to ten. The voice of “Aunt Liz” narrates the story, while a full-screen animation appears. An arrow signals when it is time to move on, there are also quizzes on object recognition and counting. This app is available for Android users and can be downloaded for free from the Google Play store and it has over 50,000 users.
In order to generate funds, Elizabeth Kperrun has ventured into many competitions, In 2014, she was featured on the Nigerian “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” Television game show, where she won the sum of 1 million naira. She was also one of the top 10 finalists on She Leads Africa; an organization that provides talented female entrepreneurs across the continent with access to the knowledge, networks and financing needed to build and scale strong businesses.
Elizabeth Kperrun does not believe in the saying that technology destroys or replaces traditions, rather she uses technology to her advantage in keeping African culture alive, this smart lady has adapted African folk tales to the 21st century.
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