I don’t know her bitcoin background, I’ve never met Farida Nabourema in real life, we have only exchanged over mails.

I think this is someone sincere and really trying to move things forward in Africa, and I fully understand it’s hard to organize there an international conference, bring people from all over parts of the world, find the sponsors, manage the organizing team. Overall sounds more a cultural issue, especially when people have a wide variety of past professional backgrounds.

Like I said as a private reply to her when she sent her mail, I’m very fine to talk about it privately to build an arrangement and keep my speaker venue to the Africa Bitcoin Conference. No reply from her so far. Some conferences they have clear and transparent code of conducts e.g TABConf in the US.

This is not clear to me who has pushed for the cancel from her mail, if it’s “silicon-valey” VCs or other bitcoin organization entities, because of some cultural difference or some communication confusion. I still think this is a shame to bully african people like Farida and her team really working hard to move things forward in Africa.

Looking forward to a bright future of Bitcoin in Africa, a lot of things to build as a community.