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Only one African app makes Google Play’s first-ever apps accelerator shortlist

Nigerian edtech app Class54 is the only African startup selected for Google Play’s first Apps Accelerator, gaining access to global mentorship and growth support.

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Does online education actually work? Analysing the efficiency of edtech 

How Effective is Online Education Compared to Traditional Learning ?

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Why African Edtech is abandoning children for adults

Africa’s edtech dream once centred on helping schoolchildren learn online. But as classrooms reopened and parents stopped paying, startups began chasing a new audience

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Nigeria sets 2030 target for 95% digital literacy

By 2027, we want to see 30 million Nigerians trained and digitally empowered. We cannot do this alone, which is why we are working with partners,” Kashifu Abdullahi, NITDA DG said

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How Treford is bridging the mid-level skill gap across Africa

Treford set to address the systemic skill gap issue among mid-level tech talents in Africa, offering comprehensive accelerator programs across design, product and marketing.

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Nigerian Edtech Gradely names Adebayo Alomaja as Deputy CEO

Gradely has been serving students in eight African countries, as well as Africans in the diaspora.

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Edukoya shuts down, citing market challenges despite $3.5M funding

Edukoya's shutdown underscores the reality that K-12 learning models may no longer be viable.

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Pan-African edtech startup TalentQL expands flagship product, AltSchool to Europe

Since its inception, AltSchool has successfully enrolled over 100,000 students in a diverse range of programmes, including engineering, business, creative industries, and cybersecurity.

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Techstars-backed Lingawa raises $1.1M, pivots to language learning

Lingawa will cater to the diaspora market where Williams believes 20 million Africans exist, but half of them do not speak their mother tongue.

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This edtech residency in Badagry wants to train 10 million people in tech

"Many young people in Badagry believe they need to go to Yaba or Lagos Island to learn tech. FiguresHub aims to change that perception."

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Norrsken22 raises $205 million to back African fintech and edtech startups

Pan-African venture capital firm, Norrsken22 has closed its $205 million Africa Tech Growth Fund to back fintech, edtech and healthtech startups.

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These edtech startups are revolutionising learning in Africa

Over 200 edtech startups are spread across Africa using diverse models to bridge the quality education gap. This listicle captures a few of the edtech startups that will have covered previously.

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