Learn What It Takes to Solve Africa’s Toughest Challenges

Get actionable insights from Africa’s leading experts in innovation and problem solving.

What is the Innovate Africa Learning Series?

The Innovate Africa Learning Series is a quarterly lineup of practical, expert-led virtual sessions designed for innovators, startup teams, product builders, and change-makers solving Africa’s most pressing problems.

Each month, we run a new session, from seminars to workshops to peer-led case studies, focused on actionable learning, local insights, and community-driven knowledge-sharing.

upcoming sessions

  • Peer Learning Case Studies: Innovations that Solved for Africa

    This session offers a dynamic and immersive learning experience for African changemakers seeking to understand how real-world innovation has successfully tackled local challenges. This workshop brings together case studies of African-led solutions that have broken through constraints like limited infrastructure, low trust environments, and financial scarcity.

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Feedback from Sessions Attendees

  • The session provided perspective. The frameworks discussed are very useful tools in designing and delivering; solutions that the people need that is also solving high impact challenges. Thank you for the session.

    Esther Ibong

  • The session was quite educative and impactful, and the facilitator had a good knowledge of what she presented. She has her slides, but it did not seem like she was reading from it, but brought it to life.

    Temitope Orororo

  • I am delighted that I participated in this webinar. It has sharpened my thinking and knowledged in evident based research towards addressing local problems by relating them with global goals or objectives.

    Yusuph Adekoya

past sessions

  • Mapping Africa’s Toughest Challenges: Where Do We Start?


    This interactive and thought-provoking workshop is designed for aspiring changemakers, social innovators, and early-stage entrepreneurs seeking to address Africa’s most pressing development challenges. Participants will learn how to move beyond assumptions and adopt a structured, evidence-based approach to identifying and prioritizing high-impact problem areas.

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  • How to Use Design Thinking to Innovate Africa's Challenges

    This session explored how design thinking and human-centred design principles can be effectively localised to design solutions that meet Africa’s unique challenges. It unpacked what it means to create with, not just for, users, and how innovators can apply design thinking frameworks in health, education, agriculture, and other critical sectors.

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Learning That Goes Beyond the Zoom Call

  • Learn from real case studies and practical examples

  • Connect with fellow innovators, builders, and changemakers

  • Discover simple frameworks to solve complex challenges

  • Unlock your Certificate of Completion each quarter

  • 100% Free and virtual