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Samuel K.
Lead instructor, Technical
Senior engineer with 10+ years across fintech and logistics. Has shipped to production at scale. Teaches the things that only come from doing it wrong a few times first.
10 years of Tunga
Building the tech-capable African professional
Fluency, not familiarity. We do not teach people to recognise the tools. We teach them to work with them until it is second nature.
10yrs
Training tech talent since 2016
2,400+
Graduates across Africa
87%
In tech roles within 6 months
13hrs
Saved per week after the Professionals track
Our story
Ten years of building African tech talent
We have been training and placing African developers since 2016. What started as a mission to connect African talent with global opportunities has grown into a full learning infrastructure for the continent's tech workforce.
The mission has not changed. The tools have. And the gap between knowing about those tools and actually working with them is where most professionals quietly lose ground. The academy exists to close that gap, one cohort at a time.
Ten years in, 2,400 graduates later, we are still building. The African tech professional does not need permission to compete globally. They need fluency.
The gap is not talent. It is the illusion of competence.
Most people think they are using AI. They opened the tools, ran a few prompts, felt clever for an afternoon. Then the week swallowed them again and nothing changed.
The real cost is quiet. Thirteen-plus hours a week lost to manual, repetitive work that a fluent person would have automated.
That is the whole point of the academy. Close the gap between knowing about AI and working with it. Fluency that compounds every week.
Before
13+ hours a week lost to manual, repetitive work.
After
Those hours back, and AI fluency that compounds every week.
How it works
One front door. Four ways through.
Pick the track that fits where you are and start building against your own work.
Pick your track
Browse the catalogue and choose the course that fits where you are - level, schedule and price up front.
Get started
Technical, Professionals, Workshops or Teams and Leaders. Choose the track that fits.
Learn live, build real
Live sessions with people who ship. Hands-on against your own work, not hypothetical exercises.
Ship and certify
A capstone you would actually use. A certificate. Fluency that stays long after the cohort ends.
Who teaches it
Taught by people who ship
Every instructor has built or delivered the thing they teach. No theorists. No slide-readers.
Amina N.
Lead instructor, Professionals
Ops leader turned AI practitioner. Built and automated her own team's workflows before turning it into a curriculum. Teaches from where most learners are actually starting.
Grace O.
Corporate programs
Runs team rollouts and measures the before and after. Has taken entire departments from prompt-curious to genuinely fluent.
Find your starting point
Browse the catalogue and pick the track and course that fit where you are.