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Adamu Zubaida Goh: The Cyber Girl Who Came From a Business School
By Let's Talk Tech · October 2026 · 7 min read
Adamu receiving her certificate by the Divisional Officer, Tubah Municipality
For years, Adamu Zubaida Goh was the quiet one. She preferred watching to talking and rarely went far from the safety of her parents' home in Bamenda. Today she teaches cybersecurity to rooms full of young people and pitches software to competition judges.
Adamu is a young Cameroonian Muslim woman studying Project Management at the University of Bamenda. She is the Public Relations Officer and Executive Assistant at Let's Talk Tech, where she also trains people in cybersecurity. She likes to call herself "the cyber girl who came from a business school".
At a glance
2024
with Let's Talk Tech since it started
Top 25
startups at NIWEDIF with Kigango SafeWave
2 years
of GirlForce training on girls' rights
6 months
as a Peace Weaver with Xhuma Africa
2026
facilitator at the Let's Talk Tech training
BBA
in Project Management, University of Bamenda
The quiet one
Adamu Zubaida Goh.
Adamu grew up in what she calls a normal Muslim family in Bamenda. She was naturally introverted, more comfortable observing than speaking, and very attached to her parents.
At home, every child was encouraged to master either public speaking or high-tech skills. For a long time Adamu could not work out which one was hers. As it turned out, the answer was both.
The turning point
Adamu on an environmental volunteering activity.
Everything changed at Conscription, a moral and civic training camp for young people aged 17 to 21, run through the National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development. There she met young people who had already achieved things she had never imagined for herself, and heard stories that stayed with her.
She left the camp knowing she had to step out of her comfort zone. Her first volunteering day was World Clean-up Day on 16 September 2023 with Let's Do It! Cameroon, cleaning streams to cut plastic pollution. After that, whenever she saw someone she admired organizing something, she went along or volunteered.
Slowly, the girl who was afraid to speak became someone who can stand in front of a full conference hall, teach a class people enjoy, run public campaigns and pitch ideas. She says the biggest change has been realizing that her voice has value.
Business school, then cyber
Adamu studied for her Ordinary Level (2020/2021) and Advanced Level (2022/2023) at Cambridge Standard Comprehensive Institute, and took a Project Management program with Career4All Academy, Lagos State, Nigeria (2022/2023). She is now completing a BBA in Project Management at the University of Bamenda (2025/2026).
Tech found her during her academic internship. There she worked closely with the IT expert Wobyeb Graphlain, who helped her find a niche in his field and guided her as she started learning. Another mentor, Nduku Louis Tebi, founder of Xhuma Africa, taught her leadership, project management and how to write funding applications.
“The cyber girl who came from a business school.”
How Adamu describes herself
Her Introduction to AI Security certificate, September 2026.
She is honest that she is still learning. Right now she is building her skills in:
- Cybersecurity, including an Introduction to AI Security course she completed in September 2026
- Web development and prompt engineering
- Graphic design and content creation
- AI and AI creation, and project management
Growing up with Let's Talk Tech
Adamu was there from the beginning. Let's Talk Tech started in 2024, when Wobyeb Graphlain called about 15 people he knew to the "Mr Graph Tech Summit" and taught them tech skills for free. He later brought some of them back together to share those skills with many more people. That became Let's Talk Tech. At first nobody had a title. Everyone just did their best.
At a Let's Talk Tech event.
Adamu started by teaching. Then she began representing Let's Talk Tech on social media, and people responded so well that the team asked her to meet partners and present partnership opportunities. Today she is the Public Relations Officer and Executive Assistant, and a cybersecurity trainer.
At the 2026 Let's Talk Tech training, which ran from 27 June to 26 August 2026, she was a facilitator, and Let's Talk Tech gave her a Certificate of Appreciation for her expertise and dedication.
Leading Kigango SafeWave
Adamu also represents Kigango SafeWave, one of the team's software products. She presented it at the NIWEDIF competition, where it was selected among the Top 25 best startups. She was then made its official lead, and she keeps pitching it and studying where it can go next.
Standing up for girls
Adamu speaking at a youth event.
GirlForce changed her more than almost anything else. Over about two years she learned about girls' rights, gender equality, protecting girls from sexual violence, and how to advocate and communicate the issues girls face. She became a GirlForce Peer Educator, and learned that advocacy is not just talking. It means understanding an issue and standing up for people.
- President, Youth Engagement Platform (YEP), Plan International, with an internship at Plan International to prepare for the role
- Community Manager, Girls Get Equal Network, Plan International, where she worked closely with a young female leader she greatly admires
- Member of the National Movement of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Cameroon, taking part in activities on mental hygiene and the International Day of the Girl Child
- Training on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) with the Bankimun Foundation
Peace, the planet and projects
Xhuma Africa's International Day of Peace 2026 post featuring Adamu.
Xhuma Africa has always felt like home. Its founder was the pedagogic inspector at her Conscription camp and told her he saw potential in her. She came as an intern, but he soon introduced her as a project coordinator and taught her, step by step, how to write projects and apply for funding.
With Xhuma Africa she completed Peace Weaver, a six-month program that trains young people as peace ambassadors, and served as a Project Management Volunteer.
- Vice President of the Mezam 2 Think-Tank Club after a training by WAA Cameroon. It did not grow as she hoped because few members took part, which taught her that a title means little without committed members.
- Trained as a Sanitary Officer by EBase, working toward cleaner, plastic-safe communities
- Renewable energy training with Cameroon RenewED
- Hult Prize contestant. Her team did not win, but she calls the experience amazing.
What she is working on
Adamu is now running a personal research project: "Assessing Digital Skills and Cybersecurity Awareness among Muslim Women in Cameroon."
Her goal is to go deep into cybersecurity and become one of the well-known Muslim women in the field. More than being known, she wants her story to show young Muslim girls, especially the ones who are as afraid as she once was, that they can step out and explore tech, leadership and advocacy, wherever they start.
Quick facts
Who is Adamu Zubaida Goh?
A young Cameroonian Muslim woman from Bamenda studying Project Management at the University of Bamenda. She is the Public Relations Officer, Executive Assistant and a cybersecurity trainer at Let's Talk Tech.
What is Kigango SafeWave?
A software product from the Let's Talk Tech team. Adamu pitched it at the NIWEDIF competition, where it was selected among the Top 25 best startups, and she is now its official lead.
Why is she called the cyber girl from a business school?
Because she came to cybersecurity from a business degree in Project Management. It is how she describes her own path.
