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What It Takes to Lead a Team Across Three Time Zones

Samuel Owusu
Samuel Owusu
June 28, 2026 · 6 min read
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Remote-first African startups are quietly solving a coordination problem the rest of the world still struggles with.

Distributed teams spanning Accra, Nairobi and Cape Town have had to solve for asynchronous collaboration out of necessity.

The playbooks they've built are now being studied by remote teams well outside the continent.

Samuel Owusu

Samuel Owusu

Covers remote-first teams and the technology powering distributed work.

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