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A 19-year-old. A UC Berkeley dropout. A $7.3 million bet on Nigeria. And a plan to do what no tech company has managed to pull off across an entire continent. Aubrey Niederhoffer discovered Africa through a geography game. Not a research report. Not a school assignment.
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