uLesson
Curriculum video lessons and practice for West Africa
The Four Mismatches · uLesson
Broadly fits
Assessed for a Nigerian WASSCE/JAMB student (its home market).
- CurriculumPass
Built for WASSCE, JAMB/UTME and NECO — the exams Nigerian students sit.
- LanguagePartial
English-medium, matching instruction — but no Hausa/Yoruba/Igbo, a real gap for the base.
- PricePass
Fees deliberately cut in 2024; ~₦12,000/quarter, priced for the local family.
- InfrastructurePass
Streams and downloads for offline viewing, built for patchy connections.
Exam-native to Nigeria and offline-tolerant; the open axis is local-language delivery.
addestra.com · The Four Mismatches Test. A single fail means it was built for a different system.
Independence: Addestra builds learning products too (MathsTutor, TinkerWell). We never review or score our own, and no tool pays to be listed or to rank higher — how we assess fit.
What it does
What the AI actually does — A streamed lesson library plus adaptive quizzes, with a more recent homework-help layer; deeper AI is [TBD].
Why it was built — Deliver structured curriculum-aligned lessons to African students where in-person tutoring and school quality are uneven.
Who built it
- Company
- uLesson Group
- Founders
- Sim Shagaya
- HQ / origin
- Lagos, Nigeria (production studio in Jos)
- Founded
- 2019
- Model
- B2C
- Exam systems
- WASSCE · JAMB (UTME) · NECO · GCE
- Languages
- English
- Pricing
- Subscription (halved fees in 2024); ~₦12,000/3 months, ~US$60–90/year international
We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.
The fit assessment
The scorecard above scores uLesson on the four axes on which exported EdTech fails to fit a local system — assessed for a Nigerian WASSCE/JAMB student (its home market). The verdict: Exam-native to Nigeria and offline-tolerant; the open axis is local-language delivery. For the full framework, see the Four Mismatches Test.
Where it sits
uLesson is on the EdTech AI 100 map, in exam prep & regional platforms, built in Nigeria.