Facebook founder hail 10-year-old Malawian app developer Panache Jere: Team Malawi wins developer challenge supported by TNM
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has hailed a 10 year-old Malawian app developer, Panashe Jere for his achievements at the Facebook F8 conference where he also met him.
Panashe created an app called ‘Talk to Me’ who learned to code at a Coding for Kids session at Malawi Hub.
This app converts input text into voice so children always have someone to talk to which won the Smart Kid Category of the TNM Smart Challenge Competition in Malawi.
For winning the TNM competition, Panashe earned himself a trip to Silicon Valley in the United States of America where he met Zuckerberg who congratulated the young developer for creating the app.
Zuckerberg later posted on his Facebook account about meeting the young Malawian saying: “this guy started coding earlier than I did.”
The Facebook founder accompanied the words with a picture of him meeting a seemingly thrilled Panashe.
Two developer teams from Malawi won a developer challenge supported by mobile operator TNM Malawi and Facebook, and were featured on F8’s international stage.
Mkuluzikawoneka,once alomwe always alomwe, mlimi wa fodya here u are too qucik to differentiate that he is a ngoni from Mzimba and not a tumbuka yet a whole govt introduced a quota system to deal with Northern region and the criteria they used is the names from north, u mention any name they record that name to have come from north, but here they are very quickk to separate just because the kid has achieved great in life!!!!! many northerners have been telling southerners and central region people that in north they are more than 12 tribes, tumbuka, ndali, sukwa,… Read more »
Jere’s are Ngoni’s not Tumbuka. The problem is that everyone that comes from the north we think is a tumbuka. There are more than 10 tribes in the north
Nkhani siyamtundu wamunthu,koma mmalawi,ndi alomwe angati amene apanga zinthu koma nkuletsedwa,wina anatsegula wailesi analetsedwa mpaka kufuna kumangidwa,kodi atumbuka kamtundu akakan’ono malawi yonse mudzasiya liti kuzikonda ndi tsankho? MALAWI UNITE
woe to yee who find comfort in uttering racial comments to fellow Malawians. stay where you are and let Him who created you punish you and your lineage!!!
Kkkkkkkk guys, lets just congrats the boy, he is not atumbuka he is a malawian, shaaaa mulungu akudalise m’phwanga
This is great. Malawi should encourage this kind of talent. This kid will go far.
Bola uli boh
ZIATUMBUKA SIZIZATHEKA AMWENE. CHICHEPERENJI CHIMWANA. VANTHU IVI NVODALITSIKA DALA. NANGA MWANA WA DAUSI, MWANVEKHA, WINIKO, CHAPONDA ANGAPANGE ZIMENEZI
koma mutumbuka sazatheka, osawapasako alomwe mpata iyayi kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk