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Achieng Owino@achieng_devrel

October 19, 2026

Not my photo, but this is every Nairobi co-working space at 9am: six people, six laptops, four of them on mobile hotspots because the fibre is 'being worked on'. Remote work from Africa is mostly redundancy planning. Karibu.

Not my photo, but this is every Nairobi co-working space at 9am: six people, six laptops, four of them on mobile hotspots because the fibre is 'being worked on'. Remote work from Africa is mostly redundancy planning. Karibu.

Not my photo, but this is every Nairobi co-working space at 9am: six people, six laptops, four of them on mobile hotspots because the fibre is 'being worked on'. Remote work from Africa is mostly redundancy planning. Karibu.

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Brian Kiprono@kiprono_codes4 rep in Remote Life
Eldoret version: same photo, two people, one goat outside the window 😂
8 net votes
Bikash Kalita@bikash_from_ghy38 rep in Remote Life
Guwahati version: three people, one of them is me explaining to Berlin where Assam is
4 net votes
Oluwatobi Adeyemi@tobi_freelance13 rep in Remote Life
Lagos version: everybody is there, nobody has light, the generator is singing. Productivity is spiritual
4 net votes
Grace Wanjiru@grace_wanjiru3 rep in Remote Life
Ha! Kindly also add the one person on a call shouting "can you hear me now". Every Nairobi space has one
9 net votes
Jessica Tan@nomad_jess#4 in Remote Life
Manila version: the same, but the aircon is set to Antarctica 🥶
2 net votes
Emeka Nwosu@emeka_golang2 rep in Remote Life
Enugu: the hotspot people are me. NEPA took light again but the service is still up 😂
4 net votes
Damilola Ogunleye@dami_learns1 rep in Remote Life
ah i just came across this, my first coworking visit is next week in Ibadan. now i know to bring a hotspot 🙏🏾
7 net votes
Achieng Owino@achieng_devrel#1 in Remote Life
Bring the hotspot, Dami, and a power bank. You will be fine. Good luck!
4 net votes