Africa's Youth are Shaping the Future of AI Work.

We're a pan-African initiative shaping the future of work through AI-powered learning-to-employment system. By combining foundational education with agile upskilling, we help young Africans become adaptable, job-ready professionals.

Africa's Youth are Shaping the Future of AI Work.

We're a pan-African initiative shaping the future of work through AI-powered learning-to-employment system. By combining foundational education with agile upskilling, we help young Africans become adaptable, job-ready professionals.

Africa's Youth are Shaping the Future of AI Work.

We're a pan-African initiative shaping the future of work through AI-powered learning-to-employment system. By combining foundational education with agile upskilling, we help young Africans become adaptable, job-ready professionals.

Why Us?

Why Jobs Matter?

Why Africa?

Why now?

We exist because we believe that good jobs are essential for young people. While entrepreneurship is important, it cannot be the default path for everyone. A good job one that offers structure, learning, income, and dignity can transform lives, families, and communities. We believe young people should have access to jobs that are close to home, with global earning potential. In today's world, that increasingly means jobs that involve using or building with AI.

Africa has the youngest population in the world over 70% of its people are under 30. By 2030, one in three young people globally will be African. Meanwhile, countries in Asia and Europe are experiencing declining youth populations, and employers around the world are struggling to find motivated, skilled talent. Africa has an opportunity just as India's youth powered the global tech boom in the 2000s to step into this gap.

Africa is shaping the future of AI work through its motivated talent available at scale. Remote work has made it possible to take on global roles without leaving home, and AI-enabled training lets us deliver high-quality education to thousands at low cost. In the meantime, infrastructure improvements across the continent are helping close the digital divide. This is Africa's moment to leap forward and we're here to help make that happen.

Why Us?

Why Jobs Matter?

Why Africa?

Why now?

We exist because we believe that good jobs are essential for young people. While entrepreneurship is important, it cannot be the default path for everyone. A good job one that offers structure, learning, income, and dignity can transform lives, families, and communities. We believe young people should have access to jobs that are close to home, with global earning potential. In today's world, that increasingly means jobs that involve using or building with AI.

Africa has the youngest population in the world over 70% of its people are under 30. By 2030, one in three young people globally will be African. Meanwhile, countries in Asia and Europe are experiencing declining youth populations, and employers around the world are struggling to find motivated, skilled talent. Africa has an opportunity just as India's youth powered the global tech boom in the 2000s to step into this gap.

Africa is shaping the future of AI work through its motivated talent available at scale. Remote work has made it possible to take on global roles without leaving home, and AI-enabled training lets us deliver high-quality education to thousands at low cost. In the meantime, infrastructure improvements across the continent are helping close the digital divide. This is Africa's moment to leap forward and we're here to help make that happen.

Why Us?

Why Jobs Matter?

Why Africa?

Why now?

We exist because we believe that good jobs are essential for young people. While entrepreneurship is important, it cannot be the default path for everyone. A good job one that offers structure, learning, income, and dignity can transform lives, families, and communities. We believe young people should have access to jobs that are close to home, with global earning potential. In today's world, that increasingly means jobs that involve using or building with AI.

Africa has the youngest population in the world over 70% of its people are under 30. By 2030, one in three young people globally will be African. Meanwhile, countries in Asia and Europe are experiencing declining youth populations, and employers around the world are struggling to find motivated, skilled talent. Africa has an opportunity just as India's youth powered the global tech boom in the 2000s to step into this gap.

Africa is shaping the future of AI work through its motivated talent available at scale. Remote work has made it possible to take on global roles without leaving home, and AI-enabled training lets us deliver high-quality education to thousands at low cost. In the meantime, infrastructure improvements across the continent are helping close the digital divide. This is Africa's moment to leap forward and we're here to help make that happen.

Our Philosophy

Practical, Purposeful, and Grounded in real world context

We believe learning should be practical, purposeful, and grounded in real world context designed to match the job, the learner, and the environment where it will be applied.

Learning by Doing

Our platform continuously scrapes hundreds of job postings to identify the real world challenges and competencies in demand, then transforms those insights into demonstrable, project based learning.

We begin by benchmarking each trainee's abilities against these requirements to personalize learning. From there, by progressing through milestones of increasing complexity, tutors and our AI-powered support system evaluate performance against our competency framework providing targeted feedback instead of focusing on isolated skills.

This data driven, competency first approach helps our graduates to be fully equipped and meet employer expectations from day one on the job.

Context is King

Context is essential for applying knowledge or skill on the job. Every exercise focuses on building competencies not just skills through hands on, relevant projects.

Learners acquire core competencies by working on realistic job scenarios and data, then map those same competencies back to the environments where they'll be applied.

This ensures they not only develop the right abilities, but also know how and where to use them in real work settings.

Supporting the Ecosystem

We empower universities, training providers, and employers with our tools, content, and training framework.

By layering our project based curriculum and competency assessments alongside existing programs, partners can create smooth handoffs from foundational learning to specialized roles without waiting for formal curriculum changes.

Our Philosophy

Practical, Purposeful, and Grounded in real world context

We believe learning should be practical, purposeful, and grounded in real world context designed to match the job, the learner, and the environment where it will be applied.

Learning by Doing

Our platform continuously scrapes hundreds of job postings to identify the real world challenges and competencies in demand, then transforms those insights into demonstrable, project based learning.

We begin by benchmarking each trainee's abilities against these requirements to personalize learning. From there, by progressing through milestones of increasing complexity, tutors and our AI-powered support system evaluate performance against our competency framework providing targeted feedback instead of focusing on isolated skills.

This data driven, competency first approach helps our graduates to be fully equipped and meet employer expectations from day one on the job.

Context is King

Context is essential for applying knowledge or skill on the job. Every exercise focuses on building competencies not just skills through hands on, relevant projects.

Learners acquire core competencies by working on realistic job scenarios and data, then map those same competencies back to the environments where they'll be applied.

This ensures they not only develop the right abilities, but also know how and where to use them in real work settings.

Supporting the Ecosystem

We empower universities, training providers, and employers with our tools, content, and training framework.

By layering our project based curriculum and competency assessments alongside existing programs, partners can create smooth handoffs from foundational learning to specialized roles without waiting for formal curriculum changes.

Our Philosophy

Practical, Purposeful, and Grounded in real world context

We believe learning should be practical, purposeful, and grounded in real world context designed to match the job, the learner, and the environment where it will be applied.

Learning by Doing

Our platform continuously scrapes hundreds of job postings to identify the real world challenges and competencies in demand, then transforms those insights into demonstrable, project based learning.

We begin by benchmarking each trainee's abilities against these requirements to personalize learning. From there, by progressing through milestones of increasing complexity, tutors and our AI-powered support system evaluate performance against our competency framework providing targeted feedback instead of focusing on isolated skills.

This data driven, competency first approach helps our graduates to be fully equipped and meet employer expectations from day one on the job.

Context is King

Context is essential for applying knowledge or skill on the job. Every exercise focuses on building competencies not just skills through hands on, relevant projects.

Learners acquire core competencies by working on realistic job scenarios and data, then map those same competencies back to the environments where they'll be applied.

This ensures they not only develop the right abilities, but also know how and where to use them in real work settings.

Supporting the Ecosystem

We empower universities, training providers, and employers with our tools, content, and training framework.

By layering our project based curriculum and competency assessments alongside existing programs, partners can create smooth handoffs from foundational learning to specialized roles without waiting for formal curriculum changes.

Our History

10 Academy began with one simple but powerful goal :

To improve the employment outcomes of high potential young Africans.

We continue to adapt to shifting global demands and the realities of the communities we serve from the rise of generative AI to the growing need for remote work readiness. We've seen our graduates land jobs at global tech giants, giving us both the confidence and the push proof that the model works.

This journey hasn't been ours alone. Partners and funders who shared our vision have fueled our progress with their trust and support. And the team many of whom came through our programs themselves bring their lived experience to shape the very training that once shaped them.

2017

Our journey began with a small in-person training in Ghana.

2019

We had transitioned online, laying the groundwork for scale.

2020

We graduated over 50 learners. Many placed in global roles and introduced the core elements of our model:

Structured technical and career content,
A defined training methodology, and
The pay it forward system.

2021

Marked a turning point: we secured our first major funding, launched another cohort, and began building the tenx platform.

2022

tenx went live, graduating over 170 learners. We expanded our reach even further in 2023 with the launch of University-to-Jobs (U2J) and KAIM graduating over 700 learners while also integrating large language models into tenx to improve personalization and maintain high-quality training at scale.

2024

tenx had evolved into a system capable of delivering scalable, AI-powered training to 1 million+ learners annually.

Over time, we refined our approach designing pathways that match each learner's motivation and potential to the right intensity of training and type of job. Some go through our immersive, high-touch programs and land global roles in tech. Others take lighter programs and unlock solid, meaningful jobs closer to home. Everyone moves forward.

Our History

10 Academy began with one simple but powerful goal :

To improve the employment outcomes of high potential young Africans.

We continue to adapt to shifting global demands and the realities of the communities we serve from the rise of generative AI to the growing need for remote work readiness. We've seen our graduates land jobs at global tech giants, giving us both the confidence and the push proof that the model works.

This journey hasn't been ours alone. Partners and funders who shared our vision have fueled our progress with their trust and support. And the team many of whom came through our programs themselves bring their lived experience to shape the very training that once shaped them.

2017

Our journey began with a small in-person training in Ghana.

2019

We had transitioned online, laying the groundwork for scale.

2020

We graduated over 50 learners. Many placed in global roles and introduced the core elements of our model:

Structured technical and career content,
A defined training methodology, and
The pay it forward system.

2021

Marked a turning point: we secured our first major funding, launched another cohort, and began building the tenx platform.

2022

tenx went live, graduating over 170 learners. We expanded our reach even further in 2023 with the launch of University-to-Jobs (U2J) and KAIM graduating over 700 learners while also integrating large language models into tenx to improve personalization and maintain high-quality training at scale.

2024

tenx had evolved into a system capable of delivering scalable, AI-powered training to 1 million+ learners annually.

Over time, we refined our approach designing pathways that match each learner's motivation and potential to the right intensity of training and type of job. Some go through our immersive, high-touch programs and land global roles in tech. Others take lighter programs and unlock solid, meaningful jobs closer to home. Everyone moves forward.

Board of Trustees and not for profit status

10 Academy’s work is overseen by its Board of trustees. 10 Academy is a registered not-for-profit organization with headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

10 Academy is supported by fundraising chapters in the USA and Germany, where 10 Academy is recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code and as charitable under German laws.

Samuel Fantaye

Entrepreneur

Ada Kibet

Data Scientist, 10 Academy Alumni

Jacques Kotze

Entrepreneur

Dorothy Nyambi

President & CEO of MEDA

Johanna Rapp

Group Leader at Max Planck Society

Board of Trustees and not for profit status

10 Academy’s work is overseen by its Board of trustees. 10 Academy is a registered not-for-profit organization with headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

10 Academy is supported by fundraising chapters in the USA and Germany, where 10 Academy is recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code and as charitable under German laws.

Samuel Fantaye

Entrepreneur

Ada Kibet

Data Scientist, 10 Academy Alumni

Jacques Kotze

Entrepreneur

Dorothy Nyambi

President & CEO of MEDA

Johanna Rapp

Group Leader at Max Planck Society

Board of Trustees and not for profit status

10 Academy’s work is overseen by its Board of trustees. 10 Academy is a registered not-for-profit organization with headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

10 Academy is supported by fundraising chapters in the USA and Germany, where 10 Academy is recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code and as charitable under German laws.