Who Pays, Who Profits: The Unit Economics Behind Africa’s Coding Bootcamp Boom
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ALX, Moringa, and Decagon have built Africa’s bootcamp sector. We break down who pays, who profits, and whether the model is sustainable.
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Africa’s Bootcamp Economy: Can Alternative Training Close the Skills Gap?
Africa’s coding bootcamp sector is growing — but whether it can close the digital skills gap at scale is an open question.
The CESA Decade in Review: Africa Enrolled More Children and Lost More Ground
A ten-year audit of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa shows enrolment gains masking a quality collapse that went unmeasured.
Africa’s Teacher Training Pipeline Crisis: Who Prepares the Next Educators?
Africa needs 15 million additional teachers by 2030. The colleges that train them are underfunded, their graduates don’t always reach classrooms, and political attention is almost entirely elsewhere.
CESA 2026–2035: Africa’s New Education Blueprint — Bolder Targets, Same Funding Gap
The African Union’s new continental education strategy sets ambitious targets for 2035 — but the financing gap that derailed CESA 2016-2025 remains unsolved.
Africa’s Learning Poverty Crisis: The Foundation Beneath the Tech Skills Gap
89% of sub-Saharan African children cannot read a simple text by age 10. Without fixing this foundation, Africa’s tech talent ambitions sit on sand.
Africa’s Bootcamp Economy: Are Alt-Training Programmes Closing the Skills Gap or Skimming the Top?
ALX, Andela, Decagon, and Semicolon claim to be solving Africa’s tech talent crisis. A data-driven look at who gets in, who gets jobs, and who captures the value.
Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently
The AU’s CESA 2016–2025 decade closed without meeting its STEM gender parity goals. Rwanda, Ghana, and South Africa offer three distinct policy models producing measurable results — but without binding targets and adequate funding, Africa’s most replicable successes are not spreading fast enough.
The Scholarship Pipeline: How STEM Programs Are Reshaping African Talent
From Google fellowships to Japanese government grants, Africa’s STEM scholarship landscape has never been richer — or more contested. A new generation of funding is reshaping who gets to study,…
