Earlier this year, I spent about 2 months teaching web/mobile development in Nairobi, Kenya, at a startup called Moringa School. Moringa School is re-crafting the US coding bootcamp model to fit the Kenyan and East African market and produce smart, hirable, confident developers.
This is a boon for the growing Kenyan startup scene (dubbed the region’s “Silicon Savannah”), where the selection of local tech talent has, in the past, largely consisted of ill-prepared college grads. Of course there is great tech talent latent in Kenya’s students, but their tech education isn’t strong enough to prepare the majority of them for employment.