Digital Africa Talent 4 Startups Programme for Young Africans 2024

It is an integrated program designed and launched by Digital Africa that satisfies the requirements of African early-stage startups for hiring competent personnel and provides job opportunities and training to youth recipients of targeted scholarships. Partner schools that train students for careers in technology and digital fields administer these scholarships.

About Digital Africa

Digital Africa has understood the need to support startups at a critical moment in their existence, in the ideation phase, when the pressure of lack of funding prevents any development, despite the quality of the projects. Fuzé is a €6.5 million facility that invests in ideation and MVP-stage startups founded by African entrepreneurs. It is fully owned by Digital Africa and aims to address the lack of seed funding in Francophone Africa.... read more... read more

Talent 4 Startups Programme

Requirements for Talent 4 Startups Programme Qualification

• I’m in the age range of 18 to 35. I reside in a nation where a partner of the program offers training.
• I’m prepared to dedicate myself to two to nine months of intense training.
• I want to work in technology, ideally for a startup.

You will gain operational, technical, and people skills if you are chosen; keep in mind that employers will value the latter above all else. Here are a few of them:

Technical Skills : 

• Coding skills
• Data cleansing, preparation, analysis, and exploitation
• Problem-solving
• Data structures and algorithms
• Database management
• Marketing campaigns and content management
• Project and product tech management

Operational And Human Resources :

• Problem solving
• Content creation
• Critical thinking
• Communication 
• Presentation and public speaking skills

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit Digital Africa website.