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Sep 2021
23m 26s

La reine du codage (The Coding Queen)

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Growing up in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, Matina Razafimahefa was upset that the majority of kids didn't have the same access to education as she did. So at 19, she took actionand launched a one-of-a-kind coding school.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3IDyFNR.

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