BANZA April 2016 Issue | Page 61

CORPORATE FEATURE HE IS A GEEK , a programming whizz, a prodigy and another plethora of names, but under scrutiny, there is more to this towering figure. You could see the complexity of his art from the string of lines of code on his Apple iMac Desktop - a product of ingenuity — a man’s dream transcribed into reality. Kolawole Olajide’s eyes are zoomed into the screen, paying undisrupted attention to the interesting development in front of him. I hesitated to make a move, but quickly garnered enough guts to disengage him, although I feel sorry. But we have to do this. Kola was born 24 years ago in the west Africa’s economic superpower, Nigeria. He is the second born of six children. He is quick to point out that his family was not wealthy, but his parents managed to provide for them. His childhood fantasy was to work in the military and nothing else, hence his enrolment into the Airforce )5