I Was You — Watching the Dollar Climb While My Salary Stayed the Same
My name is Tunde. In 2021, I earned ₦65,000 a month in Lagos Island and watched the dollar pass ₦500... ₦600... ₦700. I searched everywhere for answers. YouTube. Twitter. Facebook groups at midnight.
But none of it was made for Nigeria. Nobody talked about how to receive dollars without your account getting flagged. Nobody explained what to do when clients ask for forms you have never heard of. None of it was built for our reality.
I made every mistake. Got my first Fiverr account flagged. Lost $47 to a wrong payment platform. Sent 30 proposals and got zero replies — because my profile was wrong in ways nobody told me about.
But I kept going. Month four: my first $120. Month seven: ₦400,000 in one month. Today I run AfriVault and have helped hundreds of Nigerians walk this same path.
This book is everything I wish had existed when I started. Every platform, every payment solution, every script — built and tested inside Nigeria's reality.