{"id":495,"date":"2025-04-03T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=495"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:28:42","slug":"togolese-developer-martino-yovo-breaks-language-barriers-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Togolese Developer Martino Yovo Breaks Language Barriers in Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_7078-1.png\" class=\"wp-image-494\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Martino Yovo, a Togolese developer and product engineer at Esri, is on a mission to make tech education more accessible to Francophone Africa. Having struggled with language barriers while learning to code, he founded Togo Developers (TDEV)\u2014a thriving community with 3,000+ members across 14 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Through TDEV, Yovo and his team provide expert-led courses in French and use AI-powered translation tools to convert English-language tech resources. His goal? To level the playing field for Francophone Africans in global tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Yovo\u2019s journey, from teaching himself to code with a borrowed phone to becoming a Google Developer Expert and moving to the U.S.\u2014is a testament to resilience. Now, he\u2019s working to ensure that future developers won\u2019t face the same barriers he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/techcabal.com\/2025\/04\/02\/togolese-developer-martino-yovo-pull-language-barrier\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martino Yovo, a Togolese developer and product engineer at Esri, is on a mission to make tech education more accessible to Francophone Africa. Having struggled with language barriers while learning to code, he founded Togo Developers (TDEV)\u2014a thriving community with 3,000+ members across 14 countries. Through TDEV, Yovo and his team provide expert-led courses in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}