Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, CEO of the people-powered e-learning platform Fora recently sat down with AFKInsider. Elaborating on the startup’s inception and his background in online education, in part one Aboyeji discusses what the online school offers, changing the company’s approach to reaching professionals and Fora’s future plans.

“How we came to be founded was — I was doing a lot of studying about what the online education market in Nigeria was. I was seeing that it was growing very fast and I decided that I wanted to play in that space in one way or another,” he said.

“Our first attempt at doing so was to partner with universities in Africa and try to get them to do online school. It’s kind of like school as a service.”