ICT-Enabled Hybrid Entrepreneurship and Youth Employability in Nigeria: A Qualitative Archival-Documentary Case Study of uLesson’s Digital Tutoring Ecosystem
Khan, Adnan, Faye, Sainey, Yamoah, Fred A. and Khan, Maleeha (2026) ICT-Enabled Hybrid Entrepreneurship and Youth Employability in Nigeria: A Qualitative Archival-Documentary Case Study of uLesson’s Digital Tutoring Ecosystem. In: 26th AABD Annual Conference 2026, 19th - 23rd May 2026, Manouba, Tunisia.
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Abstract
This paper examines how ICT-enabled digital tutoring platforms may contribute to youth employability and human-capital development in Nigeria, using uLesson as a qualitative archival-documentary case of hybrid entrepreneurship in African EdTech. The study analyses publicly available documents published between 2019 and 2025, including company announcements, founder interviews, investor communications, media reports, policy documents and sector reports. The analysis uses thematic coding guided by entrepreneurial ecosystem, digital inclusion, frugal innovation and hybrid entrepreneurship perspectives, while distinguishing documented evidence from analytical inference. Findings identify five themes showing how uLesson relates to Nigeria’s youth-employment challenge through employability pathways rather than measurable unemployment reduction: response to educational institutional voids; frugal design for affordability and access; hybrid commercial-developmental logic; platform-related work and digital-skill pathways; and ecosystem partnerships with investors, telecommunications actors and education stakeholders. Public archival evidence supports claims about platform activities, design choices and partnerships, but not causal claims about job creation, wages, user labour outcomes or national unemployment effects.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Digital tutoring, ICT innovation, hybrid entrepreneurship, digital inclusion, frugal innovation, youth employability, archival case study, Nigeria, uLesson. |
| Depositing User: | Research and Knowledge Exchange Office Admin 1 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2026 11:53 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2026 11:53 |
| URI: | https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/21091 |
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