A Ghanaian with dreadlocks or tattoos as big as Jack Dorsey’s will get nowhere - M.anifest’s manager

In a Twitter blog post shared by its co-founder Jack Dorsey on April 12, the 280-character platform revealed that it has planned to establish an African headquarters in Ghana.

The news was welcomed by many Ghanaians on social media.

However, Fui Tsikata believes the opportunity given to Twitter’s CEO by Ghana government wouldn’t be the same if it were a Ghanaian with tattoos like Jack Dorsey.

“One thing this twitter announcement shows is how little we are interested in the finer details. Too much discussion is had on here at surface level,” he tweeted.

“And for me if young African Techpreneurs were encouraged and well financed by the same politicians celebrating the Twirra announcement today, the next ‘twitter’ or billion $ global tech company would be built by a Ghanaian/African creating value from serving Africans primarily.”

He said Ghanaians trolling Nigerians after the news should rather focus on ‘highlighting techpreneurs working on bootstrap budgets and push policy makers to create enabling environments for them’.

“So instead of trolling fellow Africans for ‘missing out’ on an Africa HQ of an American company which views us as a strategic cog to making more profits for themselves we should highlight techpreneurs working on bootstrap budgets and push policy makers to create enabling environments for them. The rest is just fleeting gratification and bants.”

The added that: “If a Ghanaian had as big a tattoo as Jack and was trying to raise money from fellow Ghanaians or govt he’d probably get nowhere. A big beard? Somehow, I doubt it. Dreadlocks? Hell to the freaking no! The ministers tweeting a storm would have them wait weeks to even get to hello.”