In many African Ministries of Education, the first real EdTech conversation does not start with apps, dashboards, or artificial intelligence. It starts with a question that sounds almost administrative, but is actually strategic: “How will this work with what we already have, and still be working after the pilot team has left?” That question has been repeated in different ways across the continent since […]
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Building Skills for the Future: A Conversation with Douglas Ayitey
Douglas Ayitey is part of a new generation of African educators who believe the continent’s future will be shaped not by consuming technology, but by building it. As the Founder and CEO of The MakersPlace, a Ghana-based robotics, coding and AI education organisation, he has helped thousands of young people move from curiosity to competence. With a background in electrical engineering and energy systems, […]
Inside Africa’s Digital and Green Skills Landscape: A New Report by eLearning Africa and Jigsaw
Commissioned by GIZ, this new report by eLearning Africa and Jigsaw Education examines how the private sector is contributing to digital and green skills development across 25 African countries. It explores who is delivering training, how programmes are structured, and where gaps in access and quality remain. The findings point to a fast-growing but uneven landscape. While digital and green skills initiatives are expanding, […]
From Workshop to Workforce: Inside Constance Swaniker’s Mission to Elevate Technical Education
In Ghana’s evolving skills and industrial landscape, few figures have shaped the modern conversation around craftsmanship, technical education and employability as profoundly as Constance Swaniker – sculptor, entrepreneur, and founder of both Accents & Art and the Design & Technology Institute (DTI). From turning scrap metal into celebrated art pieces, to training the next generation of precision welders, designers and fabricators, Swaniker has built […]
Kwame Nyatuame: Bringing Light to Africa’s Education Realties
“It’s not until you struggle with something, and I mean struggle to a point of it being problematic, that you are uncomfortable enough to find a solution”. Addressing the education crisis is something Kwame sees as a persistent challenge across the continent, and is exactly what pulled him into the world of EdTech. Years of experiencing old-school teaching methods, where he struggled to grasp […]
Ghanaian Spotlight – Caleb Fugah and the Science of Hands-on Learning with Dext Technology
In Ghana’s growing EdTech landscape, few innovations have captured the public imagination like the Science Set – a portable laboratory bringing practical science lessons to students across the continent. At the forefront of its expansion is Caleb Fugah, Chief Business Development Officer at Dext Technology Limited and one of Ghana’s 2025 Mandela Washington Fellows. A former SRC President at KNUST and a lifelong advocate […]
EdTech Beyond Accra: Reaching Rural Classrooms
On a hot afternoon in a village near Kpong, I watched a class of JHS pupils crowd around a single solar-powered tablet. The teacher cued a short video about the water cycle, then paused it to ask questions. The children answered, argued a little, and then practised the same ideas with a simple offline quiz loaded on the device. After the lesson, a young […]
From Curiosity to Code: An Interview with Ghana’s Isaac Kofi Maafo
In a digital age increasingly shaped by algorithms and automation, Isaac Kofi Maafo stands out by asking a different question: how can technology reflect who we are as Africans? As the CEO of DigiTransact and Executive Director of BulkSMS Ghana, he has become one of the continent’s leading voices on ethical, African-centred artificial intelligence. From developing over a hundred GPT-based tools tailored to local […]
Africa’s EdTech Transformation Is Missing Its Most Important Voices
In high-level meetings across Africa, from policy forums to development conferences, the conversation about our continent’s digital future is alive and buzzing. Specifically, conversations on scaling, innovations, and public-private partnerships necessary to grow the sector. More recently, discussions on AI strategies and their capability in closing the digital divide are being held across the continent. Yet, for all the talk, we consistently miss the […]
From Oil Rigs to Classrooms: An Interview with Ghana’s Eugenia Boadi
Eugenia Boadi is a Ghanaian engineer, coach and mentor whose career path reflects both resilience and vision. With an academic background that combines Biological Science, Petroleum Engineering and an MBA in Global Business, she began her professional journey on an oil rig in the oil and gas sector – an environment still dominated by men. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Eugenia turned challenge into […]
