Building Ekehi — Week 4: Admin Tools, Profile Images, Submissions, and Closing the Loop

This is part of an ongoing series documenting the build of Ekehi , a platform connecting African entrepreneurs with funding opportunities, training programmes, and business resources. I'm AJ, the Engineering Lead on the project. Where We Left Off Sprint 3 gave us a polished opportunities section — redesigned detail page, working save feature, correct saved state on page load, and a contributors page with skeleton loading. Sprint 4 had a different character. Less redesign, more completion . The goal was to close out everything still outstanding: ship profile image support end-to-end, build the submissions page, wire the resources section to the real API, and deliver a functioning admin content management system with approval, rejection, and delete. Seven issues created on Monday morning. All closed by Thursday. Issue #80 — the long-running tracker for wiring all frontend pages to the real API — finally closed. What I Personally Shipped 1. Profile Image Upload — Backend (PR #114) The fir