Africa's Tech Future, Today.
The people writing the code. Communities, tools, salaries, remote work, open source, and what building software on the continent is actually like.
Kongnyuy Evans is emerging as a new voice in Cameroon’s digital marketing space. Through Evans Consulting, he is helping businesses, founders and creators understand marketing, build stronger digital brands and use AI more strategically.
The most consequential technical work on the continent is happening in meetups, Telegram groups and unpaid open source, largely outside the companies that get written about.
Foreign employers paying foreign salaries have been transformative for individual engineers and difficult for the companies trying to hire at home.
Meet-ups, user groups and unpaid volunteer organisers have done more for engineering capacity on the continent than most funded programmes.
For engineers without a recognisable employer on their CV, public work is the most reliable way to be judged on what they can actually do.
